A policy change to ruminate over
It’s perhaps an oversight, but the federal program that buys essential food products (like corn and beans) from small producers at a subsidezed price, does not include “beverages”… one of which probably IS an essential food item.
And… so… PRI Deputy Refugio Camarena, a sponsor of a bill that would include certain “essential” beverages, brought a guest with her… a small producer named Lola. Talk about milking the publicity for all its worth…
