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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

Factory farming a Communist plot?

By Erik Curren | July 19, 2012

Communist USA flag

When you really look at it, America's agriculture system, with its preference for big centrally managed factory operations over small locally run family farms, looks kind of, well, Communist. And I'm not thinking about the kind of "socialism" that Fox News warns will descend on America if Obamacare isn't repealed or if the rich have to pay more taxes. No, I mean real … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food Tagged With: Communism, food freedom, Joseph Stalin, local food, Sally Fallon, USDA, Weston Price

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