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For decades, private sugar companies have gotten enormous government handouts via the U.S. Farm Bill — to the detriment of clean air and water in Florida.
Lake Okeechobee is held artificially high in the dry season to provide irrigation for sugar fields, increasing the chance of devastating discharges to the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie estuaries and Lake Worth Lagoon.
Pre-harvest sugarcane burning pollutes the air in Florida's Glades communities six to eight months a year.
Sugar industry leaders have been linked to human rights abuses in the Dominican Republic.
And the windfall profits guaranteed by the Farm Bill are used to buy influence over legislators — and keep the toxic status quo intact.
You can help right these wrongs by signing our Sugar Reform Now petition, and demanding Congress end this cycle of abuses.
The current Farm Bill expires Sept. 30, so act soon.
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