Sciq With Jayde Lovell

With all the news focused on spending bills that Trump won’t sign, you might not have noticed one bill Trump did sign, right before the shutdown began. It’s called the US Farm Bill, a bill that’s been going since 1933 and gives away almost a trillion dollars of your taxpayer money. Now, in 1933 the Farm Bill was created to protect vulnerable farmers who mostly looked like this. But today, many farmers look like this: huge Agriculture companies that own thousands of acres and make billions of dollars. So why do we still even have a Farm Bill, and where’s all that money going?Now, before we get started, let me just say that the latest US Farm Bill does loads of good things, like guarantee food stamps for the poor, legalize hemp, and outlaw the farming of cats and dogs for meat. Which I thought was already a thing in the US, but anyway, the Farm Bill was supported by both parties and passed almost unanimously. But like a golden beachy glow that might also be malignant skin cancer, the fa