Oink. (U.S. agricultural policy)
Economist (US), The, July, 1990
EVEN the most cheerful agricultural lobbyists did not expect the bigger carrots and smaller sticks that lurk in the five-year farm bill that is about to arrive on the floors of the House and the Senate. Farmers get incentives to farm in more environmentally-friendly ways; protectionist measures against overseas competitors are continued; the so-called safety nets for farm incomes remain in good repair. Yet the lobbyists for smaller carrots and bigger sticks are not as dismayed as they might be.
On the environment, Mr Kenneth Cook of the Centre for Resource Economics, a Washington-based environmental think-tank, says organisations like his own came to realise that green taxes to discourage the over-use of pesticides, herbicides and other hazardous chemicals...
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