Bernie Sanders: I'll fight for farmers against powerful agribusiness

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1. I First Learned About Farmer Suicide Rates In India

Over there, the cause most often was failed crops due to drought, largely caused by climate change. The phenomenon has come home to America thanks to a Congress paid for by BigAg and a Justice Department too facile to enforce what few laws we have.

Let's all remember that we had a chance to reapportion subsidies under the Farm Act a few years ago so that one family could not scoop up all of the money by creating multiple subsidiary companies under different names. It was fillibustered by both parties.