Farm Bill budget cuts will mean millions of Americans go hungry.

(From Guardian Unlimited)

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

So said President Franklin D Roosevelt, over 75 years ago, in his second inaugural address . This idea could not be any more important than now, when the health of millions of children, their families and older adults are in danger.

Last Wednesday, the agriculture committee of the House of Representatives voted to pass dramatic cuts to the Farm Bill. If passed by Congress, the legislation will remove $16.5bn from food and hunger relief programs that directly benefit children, …