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Posted - August 14, 2025 at 9:18 PM

Saved - August 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM

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I believe in a food system where farmers can sell directly to their neighbors without government interference, promoting local food access and entrepreneurial spirit. Discussions among farmers in DC focused on making regenerative farming mainstream, emphasizing self-reliance and education. The real cost of food is often hidden, with ultra-processed options being deceptively expensive. We must prioritize soil health and move away from chemical dependence. It's crucial to incentivize regenerative practices and ensure our agricultural policies support small farmers for a healthier future.

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Joel Salatin on restoring American agriculture: "We need a food emancipation proclamation so that farmers can sell to their neighbors without asking the government's permission." "That’s the answer to urban food deserts." "It’s the answer to everything." "It doesn’t take a dime of taxpayer money." "It doesn’t take a government agency—only the unleashing of liberty and freedom in the food system." "You shouldn’t have to ask the government’s permission to sell a bowl of tomato soup to your neighbor. That should not require a government position." "What we need is to unleash the American entrepreneurial spirit and let us interact in food transactions without asking the nanny state for permission." THREAD 🧵

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"We give a food emancipation proclamation so that farmers can sell to their neighbors without asking the government's permission. That's the answer to urban food deserts. It's the answer to everything. It doesn't take a dime of taxpayer money. It doesn't take a government agency. It only unleashes liberty and freedom in the food system. You shouldn't have to ask the government's permission to sell a bowl of tomato soup to your neighbor. Stop the oligarchy. Well, the way you stop it is not with a bigger bully government program. What we need is to unleash the American entrepreneurial spirit on our neighborhoods and let us interact in food transactions without asking the nanny state permission."

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Speaker 0: How do we unstick farmers? We give a food emancipation proclamation so that farmers can sell to their neighbors without asking the government's permission. I thousands and thousands of wannabe entrepreneurial small farmers who are ready to access their neighbors with chicken pot pie, charcuterie, raw milk, name it, kefir butter, but they can't because it takes a half a million dollar licensing compliance process with 10 bureaucrats hanging over their shoulders. That's the answer to urban food deserts. It's the answer to everything. It doesn't take a dime of taxpayer money. It doesn't take a government agency. It only unleashes liberty and freedom in the food system. We have an enslaved food system that is shackled by a plethora of government agencies and bureaucracies keeping neighbors from being able to do business with each other. You shouldn't have to ask the government's permission to sell a bowl of tomato soup to your neighbor. That should not require a government position. The successional issue right now with, you know, aging farmers or aging out, young people coming in, the way that you bring young people in is creating entrepreneurial opportunities that they are creating. All we need is to unleash the power of entrepreneurial practitioners around the country to access their neighborhoods with food, and we will accomplish what Bernie Sanders is running around asking to stop the oligarchy. Stop the oligarchy. Well, the way you stop it is not with a bigger bully government program. What we need is to unleash the American entrepreneurial spirit on our neighborhoods and let us interact in food transactions without asking the nanny state permission.

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This week some great farmers gathered in DC to discuss if regenerative farming go mainstream. To support the cause, bookmark this thread and visit: https://www.americanregeneration.org/

American Regeneration | Champion Regeneration Today Explore strategies for soil and farm health at American Regeneration. Learn how regenerative farming boosts profitability, nutrition, and national security. americanregeneration.org

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Rick Clark on making farmers self-reliant again: "Do you realize that if you go outside, there’s about 30,000 tons of free, available nitrogen above every acre of ground? Thirty thousand tons." "And how much does a farmer actually need to raise corn? About 125–130 pounds." "So, we need to educate farmers on how to implement practices that retrieve and pull that nitrogen into the system, so they no longer need synthetic inputs. That’s what we’re doing." "These farmers have cattle grazing. Our livestock are the microbes under the ground—those guys are working all the time, and you need to have them working for you." Right now, at home, for example, we’re raising organic corn with zero inputs—no nitrogen, no phosphorus, no potassium, no chemistry. Nothing. People say, “You can’t do that!” But you can. "The next phase to push this forward is education. We have to understand how to educate the educators so they, in turn, can teach the farmers." @FarmGreen13

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Do you realize that if you go out outside, there's about 30,000 tons of free available nitrogen above every acre of ground? 30,000 tons. And how much does a farmer need to raise corn? About a 125 or a 130 pounds. So we need to educate the farmer on how to implement the practices that retrieve and pull that nitrogen into the system to where you no longer need inputs. And that's what we're doing. We're doing you know, these guys have have cattle grazing. We've got our livestock are the microbes under the ground. Those guys are working all the time. And and you need to have that right now at home. For example, we are raising organic corn with zero inputs. No nitrogen, no p, no k, no chemistry, nothing. But you can't do that. Right? You can't do that. But you can. So we have to understand, though, the next phase to push this thing is education. We have to understand how to educate the educators to then teach the farmers.

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Speaker 0: Do you realize that if you go out outside, there's about 30,000 tons of free available nitrogen above every acre of ground? 30,000 tons. And how much does a farmer need to raise corn? About a 125 or a 130 pounds. So we need to educate the farmer on how to implement the practices that retrieve and pull that nitrogen into the system to where you no longer need inputs. And that's what we're doing. We're doing you know, these guys have have cattle grazing. We've got our livestock are the microbes under the ground. Those guys are working all the time. And and you need to have that right now at home. For example, we are raising organic corn with zero inputs. No nitrogen, no p, no k, no chemistry, nothing. But you can't do that. Right? You can't do that. But you can. So we have to understand, though, the next phase to push this thing is education. We have to understand how to educate the educators to then teach the farmers.

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Joel Salatin on the real cost of food: "You know, Lunchables are $14 a pound?" "Ultra-processed food is not cheap." "If you take the ingredients for a DiGiorno's frozen pizza and make that yourself, you can make it for way, way less." "In the last 50 years, the average per capita household expenditure on healthcare has gone from 9% to 18%, and the average per capita expenditure on food has gone from 18% down to 9%." "Those two numbers have directly inverted. Is it possible that there's a relationship between the two?" @JoelSalatin

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- Speaker 0: You know, Lunchables are $14 a pound. Wow. - Ultra processed food is not cheap. - If you take the ingredients for Dijarne O's frozen pizza, and and and make that yourself, you know, you can make it for way way less. - In the last fifty years of the average per capita per capita expenditure, household expenditure on health care has gone from 9% to 18% and the average per capita expenditure on food has gone from 18% down to 9%. - Those two numbers have directly inverted. Is it possible that there's a relationship between the two?

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Speaker 0: You know, Lunchables are $14 a pound. Wow. Ultra processed food is not cheap. If you take the ingredients for Dijarne O's frozen pizza, and and and make that yourself, you know, you can make it for way way less. In the last fifty years of the average per capita per capita expenditure, household expenditure on health care has gone from 9% to 18% and the average per capita expenditure on food has gone from 18% down to 9%. Those two numbers have directly inverted. Is it possible that there's a relationship between the two?

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Joel Salatin on nutrient density: "The USDA label on eggs is 48 micrograms of folic acid per egg." "Ours averaged 1,038 instead of 48." "These are not little 10% changes. There's no comparison." @JoelSalatin @JennGalardi https://t.co/11Jub4Isj2

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Speaker 0 questions how to know these eggs are more nutrient dense. The USDA label on eggs is forty eight micrograms of folic acid per egg. "I'll just pick one. Ours averaged 1,038 instead of 48." "Now, these are not little 10% changes." "There's there's no compare." The speaker uses a single example to contrast their product with the USDA figure, highlighting a claimed large gap in folic acid content. This comparison is presented as evidence of greater nutrient density, emphasizing that the difference is substantial rather than minor. The lines underscore the claim of a significant enhancement in folic acid density compared with the labeled amount.

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Speaker 0: How do we know for sure that these are more nutrient dense? The USDA label on eggs is forty eight micrograms of folic acid per egg. I'll just pick one. Ours averaged 1,038 instead of 48. Now, these are not little 10% changes. There's there's no compare.

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Gabe Brown on soil health: "The six principles of a healthy soil ecosystem are: Working within the context of nature, with our local environment in mind. Least amount of mechanical or chemical disturbance possible. Armor on the soil — nature always tries to keep the soil covered. Diversity — where in nature do you see a monoculture? Leaving roots in the soil as long as possible throughout the year. Animal and insect integration. I have not taken a government subsidy since 2019. I no longer take any crop insurance. We've eliminated seed treatments, insecticides, pesticides, and herbicides. It works out to be about two million dollars a year in savings. That is serious cash. I have two beautiful daughters and two beautiful grandchildren. They are not going to be around chemicals. My legacy is to have a viable, regenerating, no-till system to hand off to the next generation. And that’s what we’re doing. We looked at a hundred corn and soy farmers across the Midwest who had been successful in their adoption of soil health management. On average, 88% of the farmers interviewed were making more money. We can shift production agriculture over to regenerative agriculture while increasing profit. We can go down the regenerative path, heal our soils, our rivers, our streams, our estuaries, heal communities, and heal people. Or we can continue down the path we are on — a path of degradation. Humanity has a choice to make." @lovebeingryland @UnderstandingAg

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The transcript features a large American farm run by a few people, renowned for profit and soil rebuilding. A neighbor's eroded soybean field contrasts with this farmer's perennial pasture and windbreak. The farmer cites six soil-health principles: 1) work with nature locally, 2) minimal mechanical/chemical disturbance, 3) keep soil covered (armor), 4) diversity rather than monoculture, 5) living roots year-round, 6) integration of animals and insects. A second speaker says he has not taken a government subsidy since 02/2019, no crop insurance, and eliminated seed treatments and pesticides; this saves about $2,000,000 annually. He speaks of family legacy avoiding chemicals and building a regenerative no-till system. A study of 100 corn/soy farmers found 88% reported higher earnings with soil health practices. The conclusion urges shifting to regenerative agriculture to heal soils, rivers, and communities, presenting humanity a choice between regeneration and degradation.

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Speaker 0: Like many modern farms in America, this one is large, and it's run by only a few people. But unlike other big modern farms, this farmer has become famous for making a profit while rebuilding his soil. Speaker 1: What we have here to my left, this is the neighbor's cropland field of soybeans. It was eroded by wind. To the right here, this is my land. It's in perennial pasture. This is a shelterbelt tree windbreak to protect the soil. They had tilled their field, then they had planted soybeans. Then we had 50 mile an hour winds for three days. Because they had nothing growing there except the soybean, the wind caused that soil to be blown away. But unfortunately, you see the same type of agriculture, not only in The US, worldwide. The six principles of a healthy soil ecosystem are number one, working within the context of nature with our local environment in mind. Number two, least amount of mechanical chemical disturbance possible. Number three, armor on the soil. Nature always tries to keep the soil covered. Number four, you have to have diversity. Where in nature do you see a monoculture? Number five, living root in the soil as long as possible throughout the year. And number six is animal and insect integration. Speaker 2: I have not taken a government subsidy since 02/2019. I no longer take any crop insurance. We've eliminated seed treatments. We've eliminated insecticides, pesticides, herbicides. It works out to be about $2,000,000 a year in savings. That is serious cash. I have two beautiful daughters and I have two beautiful grandchildren. They are not gonna be around chemicals. And that's my legacy is to have a viable, regenerating, no till system to hand off to the next generation. And that's what we're doing. Speaker 3: We looked at a 100 corn and soy farmers across the Midwest that had been successful in their adoption of soil health management practices. And on average, 88% of the farmers interviewed were making more money. Speaker 1: We can shift production agriculture over to regenerative agriculture while increasing profit. We can go down the regenerative path, heal our soils, our rivers, our streams, our estuaries, heal communities, heal people, or we can continue down the path we are, a path of degradation. Humanity has a choice to make.

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David Stelzer on Big Ag subsidies: "The average conventional farm—at least in our country—they actually make more of their profit on crop insurance and other government subsidies than they do on selling the crop." "They feel like their hands are tied. They're tied into the commodities program that they're in, because if they aren’t in this program, then they're going to lose their livelihood. So there has to be a bridge." "Now, you know, I'm not risk-averse, so I went out. Basically, I haven’t received an agricultural government subsidy in my lifetime. Our farm has never received them. Economically, our farm makes five times as much as any of their farms, but that transition was not easy. We had to eat pretty slim for a few years during the transition of the original farm." "And so, if there’s a policy that can change—if we could spend 1% of the money that’s spent on farm subsidies and medical subsidies on regenerative agriculture, even research—you know, I think the policy has gotten the farmers stuck." @AzureStandard

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Speaker 0: "The average conventional farm, at least in our country, they actually make more of their profit on crop insurance and other government subsidies than they actually do on selling the crop." "They feel like their hands are tied." "So there has to be a bridge." "Now, you know, I'm not risk averse, so I went out." "But, basically, I haven't received an agricultural government subsidy in my lifetime." "Our farm has never received them." "Economically, our farm, it makes five times as much as any of their farms, but that transition was not easy." "We had to eat pretty slim for a few years during the transition of the original farm." "You know, I think the the policy has gotten the farmers"

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Speaker 0: The average conventional farm, at least in our country, they actually make more of their profit on crop insurance and other government subsidies than they actually do on selling the crop. They feel like their hands are tied. They're tied into the commodities program that they're in because if I am not in this program, then I'm gonna lose my livelihood. So there has to be a bridge. Now, you know, I'm not risk averse, so I went out. But, basically, I haven't received an agricultural government subsidy in my lifetime. Our farm has never received them. Economically, our farm, it makes five times as much as any of their farms, but that transition was not easy. We had to eat pretty slim for a few years during the transition of the original farm. And so if there's if there's a policy that can change, if we could spend one percent of the money that's spent on farm subsidies and medical subsidies on regenerative agriculture, even research. You know, I think the the policy has gotten the farmers

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Our reps must rep us. https://t.co/YSxq8pduEY

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American's rights must not be ceded to China. https://t.co/x6LrYzO7N0

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Speaker 0: ChemChina is producing pesticides in China that are not allowed to be used in China and shipping them over here for us to use and to harm ourselves with. So we're dealing with foreign companies that are happy to offload their toxic products onto us and then demand liability protection.

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I had the chance to ask Secretary Kennedy about responsible farming last year: https://t.co/aUUlcRJ0bn

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Kennedy on restoring American food quality: “Thomas Jefferson said that American democracy is rooted in tens of thousands of independent freeholds, each owned by a small family farmer with a stake in our system, both our political system and our economic system. For democracy to survive, we had to keep the landscapes in the control of small farmers." "The USDA was created to ensure a wholesome food supply. Unfortunately, the USDA has been captured by big agricultural interests." "They're doing the opposite of what's supposed to be done; they're making war on the small farmer and on public health." "You have to eat eight carrots today to get the same nutritional value that one carrot would give you a generation ago. And that carrot is loaded with chemicals: aldrin, neonicotinoid pesticides, glyphosate, and an entire universe of terrible chemicals, none of which have been adequately tested for safety." When chemicals are approved by the FDA, USDA, and EPA, the burden of proof is on the agency to prove that the chemical is dangerous. The assumption is that all chemicals are good for you unless proven guilty. It's up to the industry to finance the tests, so of course, those tests never get done. We've got all these chemicals that should not be in food." "How do we switch? The obstacle is that the industry is so powerful, and the regulatory agencies are completely captive to those interests. The USDA is one of the most difficult regulatory agencies to unravel from corporate agriculture. I'm going to start using every mechanism I can to incentivize regenerative agriculture. Farmers don't want to be in the commodity business, producing essentially fiber for us to eat and feel like we've had a meal. Most farmers want to create food that is beautiful, nutritious, and healthy for us." "I've been on farms all over Iowa and Kansas where farmers can't drink their own well water because it's so loaded with poisons. Those farmers are among the dispossessed. They have been deplatformed by corporations, subjected to short-term interests over the long-term productivity and economic viability of their farms." "Nobody wants to live like that, but they're locked in a system from which nobody can escape. I've got to provide them ways to escape. I'm going to incentivize the transition to organic and regenerative agriculture, and the regeneration of soils which we've depleted of microbiomic communities that can process carbon and give us good food." "One of the things I can do is weaponize other agencies against chemical agriculture by conducting good science on the chemicals that are poisoning us. Our children didn't suddenly get lazy; they are being mass poisoned, and we're doing it with commodities we label as food but are merely fibrous materials laced with poison. We've got to change that." - Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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"Americans are living six years less than our European counterparts." "USDA was created to ensure a wholesome food supply." "They're making war on the small farmer, and they're making war on public health." "you have to eat eight carrots today to get the same nutritional value that one carrot would give you a generation ago." "the carrot is then loaded with all of those chemicals with atrazine, with neonicotinoid pesticides, with glyphosate, and this entire universe of terrible terrible chemicals for which none of them have been adequately tested for safety." "Chemicals when they're approved by FDA, USDA, and EPA, the burden of proof is on the agency to prove that the chemical is dangerous." "The assumption is that all chemicals are good for you unless proven guilty."

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Speaker 0: Americans are living six years less than our European counterparts. We've got dozens of, diseases going exponential, and we have a new farm bill coming up. How can we address the toxicity, and how can we support responsible practices in farming? Speaker 1: That is a very good question. I mean, we created the United States Department of Agriculture to support the small farmer, which generations of our leadership believe that the preserving the small farmer was critical to our democracy. Thomas Jefferson said that American democracy is rooted in tens of thousands of independent freeholds, each owned by a small family farmer with a stake in our system, both our political system and our economic system. And that for our democracy to survive, we had to keep the landscapes in the control of small farmers. USDA was created to ensure a wholesome food supply. USDA unfortunately has been captured by the big agricultural interest by Cargill, Monsanto, Smithfield, Tyson, Purdue, all of these giant mega industrial agriculture factory food productions, and they're doing the opposite of what's supposed to do. They're making war on the small farmer, and they're making war on public health. And you have to eat eight carrots today to get the same nutritional value that one carrot would give you a generation ago. And the carrot is then loaded with all of those chemicals with atrazine, with neonicotinoid pesticides, with glyphosate, and this entire universe of terrible terrible chemicals for which none of them have been adequately tested for safety. Not one of them. Chemicals when they're approved by FDA, USDA, and EPA, the burden of proof is on the agency to prove that the chemical is dangerous. The assumption is that all chemicals are good for you unless proven guilty. So you know they and it's up to the industry to finance the tests. And so of course those tests never get done. And we've got all of these chemicals that should not be in food. How do we switch? The obstacle is that the industry is so powerful and the regulatory agency is completely captive by those interests, and it's one of the most difficult of the regulatory agencies to unravel corporate agriculture is USDA. I'm gonna start using every mechanism I can to incentivize regenerative agriculture, which farmers wanna do. No farmer wants to be in the commodity business, producing essentially fiber for us to eat and feel like we had a meal. Those farmers wanna create food that is beautiful, that is nutritious, that is healthy for us. I've been on farms all over Iowa and Kansas where the farmers can't drink their own wells because they're so loaded with poisons. Those farmers are among the dispossessed. They have been de platformed by corporations and a substitute short term interest of the long term productivity and economic viability of that farm. Nobody wants to live like that, but they're locked in a system from which nobody can escape. And I've got to provide them ways to escape. Know it incentivizes the transition to organic and regenerative agriculture, incentivize the regeneration of the soils, which are actually, you know, we're just we have depleted of the these microbiome communities that actually are able to process carbon and are the biggest carbon sink and that give us good food. But one of the things I can do is to weaponize the other agencies against chemical agriculture by doing good science on the chemicals that are actually poisoning us. Our children didn't suddenly get lazy. They're being mass poisoned. And we're doing it with commodities that we we put a label on and call it food. But it isn't. It's just it's just fibrous materials laced with poison, and we've got to change that.

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@rstemler1 “Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.” -John Adams

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@TheNanCooks Thanks!

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@Angie0944157428 @SecRollins Agreed. “Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.” -Thomas Paine

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@Oakandfield Samuel Adams: “The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.”

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@sentinelfarms Thomas Jefferson “The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.”

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@cottonfarm1957 Glad to hear it! 🇺🇸 “A country that ignores its farmers and its soils is a country that is trying to starve itself to death.” -Wendell Berry

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@LisaLeo27 “Good farming should be aesthetically, aromatically, sensually romantic.” 🌱 https://t.co/ub6cfXNki3

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If it stinks or it looks ugly, it's probably not good farming. Good farming should be aesthetically and aromatically, sensually.

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Speaker 0: If it stinks or it looks ugly, it's probably not good farming. Good farming should be aesthetically and aromatically, sensually.

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@JoinClubMAHA This is an existential problem.

@SecKennedy — Secretary Kennedy

Posted - March 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM

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SecKennedy highlighted concerns about ingredient manufacturers exploiting a loophole that allows new ingredients and chemicals to enter the U.S. food supply without proper safety data or notification to the FDA or the public. He advocated for eliminating the GRAS loophole to enhance transparency and ensure the safety of food ingredients, aiming to improve the nation's food supply. In response, plantparadise7 expressed support for the initiative, emphasizing the need to restore the integrity of food.

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For far too long, ingredient manufacturers and sponsors have exploited a loophole that has allowed new ingredients and chemicals, often with unknown safety data, to be introduced into the U.S. food supply without notification to the @FDA or the public. Eliminating the GRAS loophole will provide transparency to consumers, help get our nation’s food supply back on track by ensuring that ingredients being introduced into foods are safe, and ultimately Make America Healthy Again. Learn more: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2025/03/10/hhs-secretary-kennedy-directs-fda-explore-rulemaking-eliminate-pathway-companies-self-affirm-food-ingredients-safe.html

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@SecKennedy @FDA Let’s make our food food again!

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RFK Jr.: "We have 10000 ingredients in our food in this country because FDA, employs a standard called the GRAS standard and looks at any new chemical as innocent until proven guilty. In Europe, they have 400 ingredients in their foods. Kellogg's makes Fruit Loops for The United States alone. It is loaded with red dye, blue dye, yellow dye, and many, many other ingredients." "They make the same product for Canada. It's all vegetable dyes. And for Europe, if you eat a McDonald's French fry in this country, it has 11 ingredients. With the same in grid the same product in Europe, it has three." "We are allowing these companies because their influence over this body over our regulatory agencies to mass poison American children, and that's wrong. It needs to end, and I believe I'm the one person who's able to end it."

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The speaker claims the U.S. has 10,000 food ingredients due to the FDA's GRAS standard, which presumes chemicals are safe until proven guilty. Europe, in contrast, has only 400. Kellogg's Froot Loops in the U.S. contain red, blue, and yellow dyes, unlike the version sold in Canada, which uses vegetable dyes. A U.S. McDonald's French fry has 11 ingredients, while the same product in Europe has three. The speaker believes companies are mass poisoning American children due to their influence over regulatory agencies and asserts they are the only one who can stop it.

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Speaker 0: Tell me about dyes and things that that that you're concerned about because I get I get more talk about that than anything. Speaker 1: We have 10,000 ingredients in our food in this country because FDA employs a standard called the GRAS standard and looks at any new chemical is innocent till proven guilty. In Europe, they have 400 ingredients to their foods. Kellogg's makes Froot Loops for The United States alone. It is loaded with red dye, blue dye, yellow dye, and many many other ingredients. They make the same product for Canada. It's all vegetable dyes. And for Europe. If you eat a McDonald's French fry in this country, it has 11 ingredients. With the same the same product in Europe, it has three. We are allowing these companies because their influence over this body over our regulatory agencies to mass poison American children and that's wrong. It needs to end and I believe I'm the one person who's able to end it. Speaker 0: Thank you.

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Posted - March 11, 2025 at 1:28 AM

Saved - March 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM

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@SecKennedy @FDA An example of how the GRAS loophole has been used to corrupt our food:

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Up To 90% Of The Cheese Sold In America Is No Longer Made Naturally “90% of the cheese sold in the U.S. does not use animal rennet and instead uses a genetically modified organism (GMO) version made by Pfizer” They use a loophole to get around having to label all our cheese as GMO, Here’s how: “90% of US cheese has now been infiltrated by one of the world's largest biopharmaceutical companies, Pfizer, and it has GMO's.” Traditionally, cheese is made with just 4 ingredients, milk, salt, starter culture, and animal rennet, which is a clotting agent that's used to curdle milk into cheese. Today, there are 4 different kinds of rennet used in the cheese industry, and reports are stating that the most commonly used kind is a genetically modified version called FPC, or a fermentation produced chymosin made by Pfizer. These alternative rennets are both cheaper to use and speed up the aging process, which like always means greater profits. The crazy part is no one knows that they're eating this or how it's really affecting us. Because this FBC rennet is labeled as GRAS or generally recognized as safe, it creates a loophole that exempt Pfizer or other companies from having to label these products as GMO. And due to Pfizer's massive amount of wealth and power, it's now made its way into about 90% of our cheese. But how is this affecting us? Because this is newer technology, we don't yet know for sure, but there has been a number of researchers addressing concern. After all, the only unbiased safety study used to approve these FPCs was evaluated by the short term 90 day trial in rats. However, researchers are concerned about its toxicity or the biotoxins from GMOs as well as digestive issues for humans as these renin alternatives can serve as an allergen. While I'd love to present you with a list of cheeses to avoid as well as the ones that are safe, there's just way too many cheeses out there. So if you can, look for the kind of rennet or enzyme used in the cheese. I would seek out animal or traditional rennets first, then potentially some vegetable rennets, and I'd avoid cheeses containing any microbial or genetically modified rennets altogether.” —- More info: This bioengineered chymosin (FPC) was granted Generally Regarded as Safe (GRAS) status. Meaning, Pfizer was exempt from the pre approval requirements that apply to other (non GRAS) new food additives. Since Pfizer demonstrated what is often referred to as “substantial equivalence”, the FDA concluded that bioengineered chymosin was substantially equivalent to calf rennet and needed neither special labeling nor indication of its source or method of production. In case you didn’t know, this ‘GRAS’ label is a little hand wavy and just a big loophole… In general, federal law requires the FDA to ensure that food additives are safe and mandates a rigorous pre-market safety review process. But the loophole = GRAS. 43% of food additives are designated ‘GRAS’ and don't get FDA oversight. Essentially, we must trust that food companies will conduct unbiased safety determinations before adding these new GRAS substances to our food. “According to the FDC Act, food additives that are non-GRAS need approval prior to marketing. In contrast, GRAS substances do not require approval or notification to the USFDA prior to marketing.” Meaning the public and other regulatory agencies lack the data needed to assess the safety of some chemicals in our foods.

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90% of US cheese is allegedly infiltrated with GMOs from Pfizer. Traditionally, cheese contains milk, salt, starter culture, and animal rennet. Now, the most common rennet is a genetically modified version called FPC (fermentation produced chymosin) made by Pfizer, which is cheaper and speeds up aging. FPC rennet is labeled as GRAS (generally recognized as safe), exempting companies from GMO labeling. Researchers are concerned about toxicity, biotoxins from GMOs, and digestive issues, as these rennet alternatives can be allergens. The only safety study was a 90-day trial in rats. Consumers should look for the kind of rennet or enzyme used in the cheese. Animal or traditional rennets are preferable, followed by vegetable rennet, while microbial or genetically modified rennets should be avoided.

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Speaker 0: 90% of US cheese has now been infiltrated by one of the world's largest biopharmaceutical companies, Pfizer, and it has GMOs. Traditionally, cheese is made with just four ingredients: milk, salt, starter culture, and animal rennet, which is a clotting agent that's used to curdle milk into cheese. Today, there are four different kinds of rennet used in the cheese industry, and reports are stating that the most commonly used kind is a genetically modified version called FPC or fermentation produced chymosin made by Pfizer. These alternative rennets are both cheaper to use and speed up the aging process, which like always means greater profits. The crazy part is no one knows that they're eating this or how it's really affecting us. Because this FPC renin is labeled as GRAS or generally recognized as safe, it creates a loophole that exempts Pfizer or other companies from having to label these products as GMO. And due to Pfizer's massive amount of wealth and power, it's now made its way into about 90% of our cheese. But how is this affecting us? Because this is newer technology, we don't yet know for sure, but there has been a number researchers addressing concern. After all, the only unbiased safety study used to approve these FPCs was evaluated by this short term ninety day trial in rats. However, researchers are concerned about its toxicity or the biotoxins from GMOs as well as digestive issues for humans as these renin alternatives can serve as an allergen. While I'd love to present you with a list of cheeses to avoid as well as the ones that are safe, there's just way too many cheeses out there. So if you can, look for the kind of renin or enzyme used in the cheese. I would seek out animal or traditional renin's first, then potentially some vegetable rennet, and I'd avoid cheeses containing any microbial or genetically modified rennets altogether.

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Posted - March 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM

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@RepThomasMassie Thomas Massie is a salt of the earth farmer, we need many more like him! https://t.co/1k1cHuOw3e

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I'm a mix of labels, but I don't get caught up in them. Growing up in Eastern Kentucky taught me "live and let live," and I've always enjoyed building things, like a self-watering flower pot I made for my grandmother. Water is life, so I manage it carefully on my farm. My wife and I moved back to Kentucky to raise our kids and get back to the earth. I built my house from local stone and timber, even though some people thought it wasn't good enough. I got involved in local politics when the government tried to restrict land use. Now in Congress, I see how out of touch Washington D.C. is with the needs of rural communities. My farm is my passion. I want to create a sustainable model for future generations. Being here and teaching my children self-sufficiency is my dream.

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Speaker 0: There are a lot of labels floating out there, you know. Libertarian leaning Republican, constitutional conservative, Tea Party, deplorable. I'll go with any of those labels. I don't really get caught up in labels. Look, I've been called a redneck and a hillbilly and a nerd and a geek. I I find those to be terms of endearment now instead of derision. This is the Shire. I mean, look at it. It can't get any more beautiful than this. Here in these hills, these are the people that I grew up with and the families that I grew up with are the same families my kids are growing up with. And to come back here and have a real interaction with people you know and you know you're gonna know until you die is is very rejuvenating to me. My philosophy is live and let live. And I think it comes from growing up here in Eastern Kentucky where sort of the motto is you don't worry about what somebody's doing in their holler if they don't worry about what you're doing in your holler. And that comes from the people who settled these hills. They learned to be self sufficient and they learned not to poke their nose in their neighbor's business. I was bored growing up, but I found that I liked to build things and make things. Especially things that would improve other people's lives. When I was in junior high, I invented a flower pot that would water itself when the soil got too dry. And that was for my grandmother who liked to travel a lot and she wanted to make sure her plants didn't die when she was gone. Now, she was paying my brother and my sister to water her plants when she was gone and I decided to liberate them from their paycheck and invent a self watering flower pot. Water is life. So, a lot of what I'm doing here on my farm is managing water everywhere. Out in front of my house, we're on a hill here, I built this terrace garden and the water runs off the roof and we get a lot of water, and all that water off my roof comes down here and waters the garden. So it produces lush tomatoes every year. That's gonna be yummy on a BLT. Some of these are rotten. These are gonna go to the chickens. Chicken's gonna eat that. We don't compost because basically everything we produce, the chickens or the dogs will eat. So we don't really have to compost things. Looks like we got two eggs. That one's still warm. So there's a couple levels of farming. You can buy the offspring after they're hatched or born, but really the next level is when you start breeding your own stock. These chicks were raised right on the nest with the mother and the benefit of that is we never have to bring them inside and put a heat lamp on them or feed them. They've never been fed little chicky food. They just come out here and eat whatever their mama's eaten, which today happens to be tomatoes and bugs. And it just it seems like a miracle every day that I come out here and there's still seven chicks because there are predators right off in the weeds here. There are raccoons, there are foxes, there are coyotes, there are the neighbor's dogs, and all of them like to eat chicken. I like to say the reason so many things taste like chicken is that everything likes the taste of chicken. My goal, my dream was to go to MIT. I'd never even visited the campus. I read about this place called MIT, never been really north of the Mason Dixon line and I applied and was accepted. I did well at MIT. It was like drinking from a fire hose. At MIT, I invented some technology, some virtual reality technology that let people touch virtual objects, to feel them with their hands inside the computer. I commercialized this device. I got patents for it. I raised venture capital money. A lot of this happened while I was still in school. My high school sweetheart who actually grew up on this farm also went to MIT. So we were doing this company together while we were both students at MIT. That was very rewarding but my wife and I wanted to get back to Kentucky and because we had started the company in our married student housing dormitory, we had hired 70 people in New England. I thought about trying to offer them all 40 acres and a mule to come back to Kentucky with us but ultimately we had to sell our ownership and separate from the company in order for us to relocate here in Kentucky where we wanted to raise our kids the same way we had been raised. We bought the farm that my wife grew up on, her parents still live here and we decided to build a house and to do tangible things. I had been living in virtual reality, that was my business, a virtual reality device. Getting back to the earth was important to both my wife and I. So we wanted everything about our house to be real and nothing about it to be fake. Kentucky was the best place for us to live this dream because there are very few regulations here. I came back here just to blend in. I didn't want to be the nail sticking up. Shortly after coming back here and starting to build our house with everything real, the local government decided they wanted to start passing more laws and restricting what you could do with your land. I thought, well, I can just ignore that and just go on with my life and I did. I ignored it for two or three years and then I just couldn't take it anymore and I wrote a letter to the editor to air my grievances with the local government. They were gonna raise our taxes that day and we stopped it from happening. Alright, so on my farm there are some very large stones like this and they're great building material but they're too big for me to manage. So what I do is I slice them up using a gas chop saw and wedges to split the stones. So this is a stone where I've sliced into it with the saw and then drove wedges into it and split it. Eventually, I get down to something about this size, but I don't that's not a nice looking face, so I want it to look good. So I faced this with a chisel. So my idea for my house was to build it all from stone and timber that I could find here on my farm. And when I told people that I was gonna do that, they were worried for me that the stones wouldn't be good enough. That somehow because they were available right here on my farm and local that maybe they were inferior. And I'm sure you've seen stones that look like this. This is how they end up looking like this. And when they try to imitate stones that look like this, they're trying to imitate work because this is a lot of hard work. But I think there's this notion that if something's available locally, it's not as good. That it's gotta be exotic, that you've gotta get this stone from Italy in order for it to be something meaningful. For me, it's more meaningful because it came from the location where I'm building the house. Literally, I want a house that's coming out of the ground and belongs here. That's the other thing. The stones on my house match the stones that we're walking on in the ground here because it's the same stone and it's gonna last pretty much forever. We had an ice storm that struck our farm in 02/2003 and fell a lot of trees on our property. I spent a year with my bulldozer and a winch going into the woods and dragging these trees out. And those are the trees that are here in my house. The ones that nature cut down for me. I just had to drag them to my sawmill and then cut them into the shapes that would form this house. I started studying timber framing and I even signed up for a one week class in Tennessee on timber framing. And when I went there, I learned how ignorant I was and that the beauty of building a timber frame house is that you can make the fasteners out of the same material. The fasteners are wood. The whole house is held together with wooden pegs. But if you study it even more, it's not even the pegs that are holding the house together. There's joinery. The tenons go in the mortises and then if you lay it out correctly and properly, almost all of the joints are held together just by the force of the house, not by the pegs. So when I found out they were trying to zone the county, that means they wanted to pass a law where we would be required to go to the local government and ask their permission to do things with our property. I decided to write another one of my letters to the editor. Thirty people showed up at that zoning meeting. Now, I stood up to speak first and after five minutes, the chairwoman advised me that I should sit down, that I was done speaking. I stood at the podium wondering what I would do next because I certainly didn't want to sit down. A democrat in the crowd who had been inspired by my letter to the editor to show up at the meeting stood up and told the chairwoman, he can have my five minutes. And she said, Okay, Mr. Massey, you've got ten minutes now. And then everybody in attendance stood up, all 30 people, and said, We're giving him our five minutes too. That was inspiring to me because those people trusted me to speak for them and they wanted to hear what else I had to say and we stopped the county from being zoned. So they nicknamed this group of people Thomas' Angry Mob. Ironically, they weren't angry and it wasn't a mob, they were informed and they were organized and I was helping organize them. And that's when I realized you could be activist and you could change government. It's 88 psi. We have a pond that's 200 feet in elevation above the house. It's back here in the woods, and it's at the head of that holler about a third of a mile away. You know, when I visited Monticello, I noticed that they had 10 roofs over everything and they were trying to catch every drop of water that hit their roofs and then reuse it. But I also noticed the next hill over from Monticello was much taller than Monticello. Thomas Jefferson could have built a pond on top of that other hill and used gravity to feed it right there to Monticello and he could have had all the water he wanted at a pressure, a water pressure that would have just been incredible. But the problem was they didn't have plastic pipe. I ran two inch pipe right here from that pond down to here and you get like point four psi per foot of elevation. So I have 88 psi of water and there's almost half a million gallons of water in the pond and as I use it, whenever it rains, it fills back up. So it'll last for maybe five hundred years, you know, if you keep the trees off the dam. Because without water, you can't have anything. Water is life. And so eventually I was persuaded by the people who were inspired by my letters to the editor. And I ran for this position called county judge executive. You have to judge which roads need paved first, which wooden bridges need to be concrete bridges, which dogs need to be caught and which dogs don't need to be caught because the dog catcher worked for me, who would operate the trash routes, these were things you had to judge. It's not government from 30,000 feet like it is in Washington DC. You're in the trenches with bayonets and pitchforks trying to settle these issues. I was inspired to go to other counties and talk to groups that had organized. One of the messages that I try to get across to people who wanna get involved in government is that you gotta be involved at every level and that even the water board or the sewer board or the school board has the power to take your property either through taxation or outright condemnation and that's a very powerful thing and so you need to either run for that office or be very concerned about who takes that position. I was building a base that would ultimately persuade me to run for this congressional seat and that's what happened is our congressman announced his retirement And these people that I had gone to and spoke to, because they cared and I cared, they got me elected to congress. And now I'm in congress, so I tell people my life, my career started out in virtual reality, then it came back to the farm, and now I'm back in virtual reality in Washington DC. Yeah. One of my sons now, he doesn't like working for me, so he went and got a paycheck. He got a job where he gets a paycheck working construction. He's 17. And now he's got the little stub that's got withholding on it. So there's FICA and federal income tax and state income tax. So, you know, until then, I've been paying in cash. So I asked him, what do you think now, son? And he showed me his pay stub and he pointed to the federal withholding. He said, I think I'm paying your salary now, dad. You work for me. One of the things I regret about my orchard is I didn't label the trees. Like, I thought I would always remember what tree I had planted where. But then I ran for congress and got elected and went to DC, and I forgot what this tree is. So now I've done something to keep from forgetting. I had to come up with the sign that would outlast me, so I figured tombstones are made to outlast people. So I made little tombstones for my trees that tell me, and the person after I die, hopefully that's not too soon, what the tree actually is. And this is a bell of Georgia. It's a white peach. This is the Shire. I mean, look at it. It can't get any more beautiful than this. And it stands in stark contrast to what lies beyond those hills eastward is Mordor. And I mean Washington DC. When I go there, there's no greenery like this. Man has tried to create something as magnificent as these hills but he's failed really in DC to do that. There's a lot of glitz and glamour in Washington and I think it's built that way to impress people, to try to convince people something important is going on there. Here, ducky. So daddy duck is the white one. He's a they don't like me interrupting their food. The white one is the daddy duck. The black one is the mama duck. He's a meat duck. He's a Peking duck and this is a coyote duck. And she lays eggs. And my goal was to cross the meat duck with the egg layer so that the offspring would be sort of a double dual purpose duck. I learned you don't touch the metal bucket and the duck fence at the same time because you might mispronounce duck. So that solar panel powers this. Now I can plug a solar I can plug a fence charger into my house. Anything that's running off electricity on the top of this hill is running off solar power, whether it's got its own little solar panel or whether it's running from my house. The the electric wire that connects you to the electrical grid, it's like an umbilical like in the matrix. And the government has a lot of control over your life through that one little wire. If you refuse to comply, the first with one of their regulations, the first thing they do is to cut that wire. And typically the first thing you would then do is cry uncle because try going without electricity for a day or two once you've gotten used to it. Yeah, one thing that's become apparent to me now that I've been in Washington DC and after having been in the private sector and also every weekend coming back to my farm is that the folks in Washington DC have no business trying to make decisions about what's most efficient for people back on their farms or back in their businesses. So there are a lot of people that have never been in the country that live in Washington DC and try to make rules for the country the countryside. Out here, heating with wood is a very inexpensive, practical, renewable way to sustain your household. And in Washington DC, the EPA, even without congressional action, has been trying to crack down on wood burning stoves because they've got this notion somehow that all the trees are gonna disappear and that burning wood is a bad way to create heat. Well, you can see over here on my hillside, like literally, even before you get to the real leafy stuff, there's four or five dead trees right there that will heat my whole house this this whole winter, this entire winter. The the four trees that you can see will provide all the heat that I need. Now, if I don't go cut down those dead trees and and burn them in my wood gasifying boiler, they're gonna fall down and termites are going to work on them. And instead of producing CO2, now they're gonna produce methane which the environmentalists say is 43 times as worse in terms of greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Alright, so this is my boiler room and this is where all the heat for the house comes in the winter. My children stack wood on these U boats and we roll them into the basement. And if we fill up four of these U boats, we've got enough wood to heat our house for a month. So this is a gold mine to me right here. I found a fallen tree across my trail where the wood has already dried out. You put the wood in the boiler, and instead of burning the wood directly, it gets it really hot, turns it into charcoal, drives off the gases like the hydrogen gas and the other hydrocarbon gases, forces them down into a lower chamber where it burns at 1,500 to 2,000 degrees in a ceramic chamber and literally everything burns in that chamber. The benefit is all of the smoke is combusted in that chamber as well as the things that normally burn. All that comes out of my chin is steam. At our house, we're producing less pollution by burning dry wood and it's also a carbon zero cycle. In other words, all of the carbon that's in this wood was collected from the atmosphere so that when we readmit it into the atmosphere, there's net zero carbon production. Is that the solution for everybody? No, it's not the solution for everybody. But every solution needs to be tuned to the local environment and the local culture and that's why it's so wrong for Washington, D. C. To try and dictate that. Our founding fathers didn't want that executive in Washington, D. C. To make all the local decisions. So we've got levels of government, state government, county government, city government and a dangerous trend that I see, and I see this in Congress, is that vertical limitation is now being eroded. Horizontally, they balance the power of the judiciary and the legislative and the executive branch, And we've sort of forgotten that. Every time we see the presidential election, we think it's the Super Bowl of politics and we're electing a king, right? And that the legislative branch and the judicial branch would be irrelevant and the king will just use his pen and his phone and do what he wants. But, so we've forgotten that. People are as guilty as the media and anybody else in remembering that government is horizontally limited, but they are also guilty of forgetting that it's vertically limited. And Washington DC is making decisions that should be made at the state, should be made at the county level, maybe they should be made in your living room and not made by any government. But we need to always be working to keep that government in check because it's a dangerous thing and I've learned it at the county level. So my cattle are on the other side of the creek there in the distance and we're gonna move them over here because the grass has had time to recover here and it's grown tall enough for them to eat. Some people say that cattle are bad for the environment and that you shouldn't eat beef because more productive things could be done with the land. And those people really have never seen a farm in Appalachia because look at this field right here, this terrain. Most sane people would not drive a lawn mower on it. It's a hill, right? You can't grow any kind of crop here effectively. Some days in Washington DC I feel like this little white calf here. I look around and say, how'd I get here? What am I doing here? Do I belong here? The farm has taught me how to be more patient and that's the greatest resource I think you have to have in Washington DC. These cattle here, the genetics are the result of you know three or four generations of breeding. And I've got mama cows that have calves on their own without a lot of problems. But you can't expect all of that in one year or two years. Making food for other people and watching them eat it and it provide nourishment to their bodies, that's honest, like that's not fake. And you know something got done and somebody appreciates you for it. And those are concepts that are somewhat foreign in Washington DC. I mean if you think about it, nothing is produced in Washington DC. There's nothing manufactured, there's no food grown, there are very few inventions created, if you will. It's just a place where nothing is created and a farm is exactly the opposite. There's life happening here every day. I've found out that I can get more money for my animals if I keep feeding them grass, get the calves to an older age, and then sell that beef directly to consumers. Now, there are government barriers to that, as you can imagine, and the big players in the beef industry don't want any of those barriers removed. So the USDA rules require you to employ a USDA inspector in your facility full time if you want to have the USDA certification. And there's a butcher house three miles from here, three miles from my house that does a fantastic job on these animals and as long as I sell you a share of this animal before I take it to that butcher shop, it's all legal and you can have the meat after it's butchered But I can't sell you less than a quarter of the animal. And it's healthy and the US government has no problem with that. But if I try to sell you a steak and we don't pretend at least that you own this animal before I butcher it, I go to jail. And the big guys like that because you can imagine how hard it is if I come up to you and say, would you like to buy some of my beef? And you say, yes, I'm having a cookout this weekend. I say, great, the smallest order is 300 pounds but you can go to the supermarket and buy one steak because that has the imprimatur of the USDA because that facility employed a USDA person and kept them at their facility when they were butchering. So the net result of that regulation is instead of going three miles from my house, I have to go a 50 miles from my house to a facility that has a USDA inspector which raises the price and the effort and then I've gotta come a 50 miles back with frozen beef without letting it fall and then distribute frozen beef to consumers. Is a very difficult proposition. Democrats and liberals want the ability to buy locally and consume healthy food and they're starting to wake up and realize that the healthiest food comes from your neighbor where there's accountability. It doesn't come from some centralized industrial food production system that's corporate. And this is what we're gonna be eating, beef brisket. You cook this low and slow. Sweet. So for me, I mean, I like the fact that it's quote green to be off the grid or to be running on solar power, but for me it was about independence. Sunlight hits the panels, panels produce DC electricity. These devices take that DC electricity, step it down, and charge the batteries. Now we have got DC power but we need AC power to run common everyday appliances in the house. That's what these puppies do. These are inverters. They take 48 volts from the batteries and produce a 20 volts AC alternating current, the kind like your blender wants to use or your air conditioner. And, that's what these components do. The thing that's gonna be the next breakthrough in energy production is actually energy storage. The world doesn't need a better solar panel. The world doesn't need a better windmill. The world needs a better battery. So next to the big Tesla, we've got the little Tesla here. This is an electric go kart that my son built and we charge it with the solar panels. And then, you know, in a zombie apocalypse when the zombies take over the refineries and they're shut down, we'll be able not only to drive a car off of the solar power from the house, but we'll be able to also have a go kart. When I started farming this property, I thought about my mission statement. So my mission statement, my mission in life on this farm, my goals for this farm, is to come up with a sustainable, money producing model. That's why I have cattle on this farm. I don't need 50,000 pounds of beef. That part of it's not a hobby farm. That part of it is figuring out a business model that the next generation can use whether it's my children or somebody else's children. I don't wanna see all of the trees stripped at once and it logged. I would like it to remain very much like it is now. Here's the thing about the hobbits that go to Mordor. Most of them succumb to the intoxication of power. In fact, I've got my Precious here with me. This is my congressional pin and I usually just keep it in my pocket where I can reach in and feel it. It gives me some comfort but I try not to ever wear it more than I have to Because when you when you wear precious, and every congressman has one of these and they love to wear them, you become intoxicated. And it's the subtle things that you don't even realize that are happening when you're wearing this pin. For instance, the Capitol Hill police get out of your way as you walk toward them. I once bumped into a policeman because I didn't have Precious on and he didn't yield to me. And it's those subtle things like when you get in an elevator with 10 people on Capitol Hill and they look down and see you're wearing precious, they all quit speaking. Know, they'll hold the door open and let you exit first. When you're walking down the hallway wearing precious, people won't make eye contact. They'll look away and look down when you're wearing precious. And all of those things, as odd as it may seem, make the hobbits who wear Precious feel powerful. And I can feel it myself and it's a scary feeling because I know if I wear this for too long, it's gonna affect me and not in good ways. I think one of my weaknesses and one of my strengths is that I'm a romantic. My dream is not to be a politician. My dream, I'm living it here on my farm already and that is marrying my high school sweetheart, building our small castle with our own resources on top of a hill. This is actually the farm my wife grew up on. And to be raising a family here and teaching them values like self sufficiency, that's my dream. My dream is not to lord over people from a central government somewhere. And I get to live that dream one day a week while I'm serving in congress six days a week. And that's important to me.

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Posted - February 19, 2025 at 6:49 PM

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I’ve been reflecting on the response to avian influenza and how it often overlooks survivors in flocks. Instead of exterminating all birds when one is infected, we could breed the survivors for better immunity. I believe in the power of pasture-raised chickens and non-GMO feeds to enhance their immune systems. The root of bird flu seems to lie in concentrated animal feeding operations, which are unsanitary. Blaming wildlife for outbreaks is misguided. Ultimately, I question the narratives around avian influenza and advocate for a more sensible approach to agriculture.

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Farmer Joel Salatin on bird flu immunity: "The thing that gets me about avian influenza is the response to it. In any flock that gets avian influenza, there are always survivors—many times, more survivors than not. Now, you would think that if the people in charge were actually thinking, they would say, "Huh, we’ve got a flock here of chickens. Some got it, some didn’t. Why don’t we save the ones that didn’t? We’ll take their genetics, breed them, and maybe we’ll actually breed in more robust immune systems. Wow, fancy that! Wouldn’t that be cool?" "No. If you have 10,000 birds in a flock and one bird’s got avian influenza, immediately, by government decree, all of them must be exterminated." All of them—survivors, non-survivors—everything. Back many years ago, when a pathogenic influenza hit Indochina—remember when it came through Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and all that?—the UK did some experiments. They found that if a chicken eats two fresh blades of grass a day—two blades of fresh grass a day—she doesn’t get avian influenza."

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Salatin continues: "You know, I’m waiting for them to say, "Huh, I wonder if we should try putting these chickens out on pasture, moving them around all the time, giving them some fresh area to be in, and feeding them non-GMO feeds instead of genetically modified organism feeds. Let’s see if we can build a better immune system so that they’re so robust they won’t get avian influenza." "Ours are eating way more than two blades, so we trust the immune system. We trust the system. We don’t sit here, you know, paranoid and paralyzed in fear. We believe that a robust immune system and an ecologically sound system actually bring functionality and credible solutions to this issue."

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Joel on the source of Bird Flu: "Every time it starts, it starts in a concentrated animal feeding operation or some sort of industrial, concentrated situation that’s unhygienic, unsanitary, and fully vaccinated, medicated, adulterated, pharmaceutical-ized, and everything else you can imagine."

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Salatin on egg CAFOs blaming nature: "When the industry blames wild birds, they always say, "Oh, it's these ducks, it's these geese, it's these wild critters that are bringing this in." Listen, any kind of production system that demonizes wildlife is automatically wrong. You can't have any kind of actual, credible food production system in which wildlife is the enemy. That’s number one."

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Joel Salatin concludes: "Whatever you're hearing about avian influenza—I don’t know whether it’s true or not. I don’t trust basically anything the government says anymore. But even if it is true, the remedy is the opposite of what it ought to be. The whole thing is upside down and backward, and it’s time to restore some sanity to our agriculture system."