This Sausage Is Good for You

摘要

This year's Farm Bill does more to satisfy the appetites of specialty crop producers than any previous Farm Bill. Fveryone knows about sausage, right? Even if you love it, you don't really want to know how it's made, just enjoy the product. For the past few months, we have been treated to the political equivalent of sausage making, as theFarm Bill has wound its tortuous way towards finished legislation. Thousands of ingredients have been dumped into the Congressional grinder, with a recipe based on special interests, missed deadlines, repeated extensions, machinations, grandstanding, finger-pointing, hand-waving, etc. Then, voila! The package is assembled, passed, vetoed, and the veto overridden quicker than you can say "microwave."