Table of Contents   Executive Summary The Case for Environmental Tax Shifting: The Polluter Pays Principle    Documenting Sales Tax Exemptions, Sales Tax Rates, and Sales of Agricultural Chemicals The Industrialization of Agriculture and Agri-chemical Addiction    The Decline of Family Farming    Food Security    Increasing Chemical Use    Hidden Pressures Agri-Chemical Impacts: People, Wildlife, Water, Soil, and Air    Health Effects: Humans       Acute Exposure       Chronic or Long-Term Exposure          Carcinogens and Cancer          Other Health Effects    Pesticide Residues in Foods    Effects on Wildlife    Environmental Contamination       Water          History of Documenting Agri-Chemical Impact on Water          The National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program       Soil       Air and Atmosphere Getting off the Agri-Chemical Treadmill: Saving the Family Farm    Case Study: Comparing the Economics of Conventional, No-Till, and Organic    Cropping Systems in Illinois A Vision of Sustainable Agriculture Give Farmers a Break: Recommendations for Use of Sales Tax Revenue    Tax relief and payments to preserve farming    Earmarking of new sales tax revenue    Use of Special Taxes: Examples of 3 States       Minnesota       Iowa       California Appendices A. State Profiles B. Three Examples of Current Laws Exempting Agricultural Chemicals from Sales Tax Tables and Graphs Chart 1: Snap Shot of Top 10 Revenue Losers Table 1: Sales Tax Revenue Loss by State Chart 2: States Exempting Agricultural Chemicals from Sales Tax Table 2: Pesticide Use in the U.S. Graph 1: Relative Cost of Agricultural Chemical Sales Taxes for Farmers Table 3: Major Classes of Pesticides and Associated Toxic Effects Table 4: Costs and Returns of Different Farming Systems per Acre Graph 2: Costs and Returns of Different Farming Systems per Acre   CONTINUE TO: < < PREVIOUS Page NEXT Page > >     [  Back to Top  ]   Home  |  Credits  |  Table of Contents  |  Footnotes  |  State Profiles  |  Contact