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USDA: Rural population needed not for farming but for cannon fodder

By Staff Reports | August 21, 2013

US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack

Joel Salatin recently posted this piece on the Polyface Farms Facebook page and we repost it here with Joel's permission. -- Ed. Why do we need more farmers? What is the driving force behind U.S. Department of Agriculture policy? In an infuriating epiphany I have yet to metabolize, I found out last Wednesday in a private policy-generation meeting with Virginia Democratic … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food Tagged With: imperialism, Joel Salatin, Terry McAuliffe, Tom Vilsack, US military, USDA

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