Bush Urges Buying From Local Farmers To Help Fight Food Prices, Scarcity

[hatrack]

No, I am not kidding.

George W. Bush -- dark green? I kid you not. Here's what he said in his press conference today:

"One thing I think that would be -- I know would be very creative policy is if we -- is if we would buy food from local farmers as a way to help deal with scarcity, but also as a way to put in place an infrastructure so that nations can be self-sustaining and self-supporting. It's a proposal I put forth that Congress hasn't responded to yet, and I sincerely hope they do."


I have no idea what he's talking about -- what proposal did he put forward to Congress about local food? But I'm sure the 100-Mile Diet folks are on the phone with the White House right now.

EDIT

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/4/29/134733/024

As somebody else noted, maybe he slipped something into the Farm Bill?

:eyes:

[phantom power]

1. Just riffing on some key words his staff skimmed off Teh Google.

"Yeah, mention buy-local, and mix it up with do-nothing-congress, yada yada"

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. I think he's desperite

and doesn't know what else to say.

[LynzM]

3. Holy crap.

I agree with something he said?! :wow: Local food is something we definitely try to do, though it's not really a "new" idea but rather a very old one, at this point...

[End Of The Road]

4. Need local meat processing ability

Yes, it would need gov't oversight, but if beef could be processed locally/regionally at a moderate scale, it would help alot of people.

[FREEWILL56]

5. I think bush has been trying to grow pretzels in the garden again.

[Zachstar]

6. Holy crap! I agree with Bush!

If local market demand went up.. People would grow their own stuff to sell on it! And that will scare the food prices down somewhat.

[pscot]

7. I guess next we'll see him in the oval office wearing a cardigan

and urging us to turn our thermostats down.

[depakid]

8. Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes.

though somehow I doubt the administration has bought into the larger concepts about community food security.

More likely a Reagan in Reykjavik moment.

[eppur_se_muova]

9. He's turning into Herbert Hoover.

Time to elect another FDR.

[Tumbulu]

10. I read somewhere that he only eats organic food

cooked by his own chef.

I do not know if this is true, and can't even remember where I read it. But it made me furious as I am an organic farmer and I do not want to be sustaining him.