Readers of my other blog will know that I have a long-standing interest with gastro-politics, which is the foodie way of saying the pernicious impact of our farm policies on our national health and budget, not to mention the taste of tomatoes. And so I am pleased to note that today Oxfam, known mainly for its valuable work fighting hunger internationally, has decided to get into the American gastro-political debate, releasing this web video taking the side of family farmers against the heavily-subsidized corporate farms favored in current agricultural legislation.

The ad will also air on television and be accompanied by a print advertising campaign.

–Garance Franke-Ruta

Garance Franke-Ruta is a former senior editor at the Prospect. Her work has also appeared in The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. She was a 2006 recipient of a fellowship at the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University.