"SEATTLE -- The largest U.S. farm group will oppose aggressively 'misguided' climate legislation pending in Congress and fight animal rights activists, said American Farm Bureau Federation president Bob Stallman on Sunday.
In a speech opening the four-day AFBF convention, Stallman said American farmers and ranchers 'must aggressively respond to extremists' and 'misguided, activist-driven regulation ... The days of their elitist power grabs are over.'
Stallman's remarks held a sharper edge than usual for the 6 million-member AFBF, the largest U.S. farm group and often described as the most influential. Its convention opens a string of wintertime meetings where farm groups take positions on public issues."
Charles Abbott reports for Reuters January 12, 2010.
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"Farm Bureau Fires Back Against Climate Bill's 'Power Grab' (ClimateWire)
"The American Farm Bureau Goes All In" (Grist)
"Big Ag Not Content With Concessions in House Climate Bill" (Grist)
"Farm Lobby: Shoot the Climate Bill, But Keep the Peterson Goodies" (Grist)
"Jesse Ventura Body-Slams the Climate Change 'Conspiracy'" (Mother Jones)
"Betting the Farm" (Mother Jones)
"Big Ag Looks to Plow Under Senate Climate Bill" (Mother Jones)
"Ag Lobby Vows Even More Aggressive Fight Against Climate Bill" (Mother Jones)
