Secretary of Agriculture

  • Iowa’s Vilsack Likely Pick For Secretary of Agriculture

    Ralph Maughan

    WaPO says environmentalists and “food groups” reacted positively- Obama to name Vilsack for Agriculture. By Philip Rucker and Dan Morgan. Washington Post Staff Writers. Vilsack was a popular governor of Iowa. He has been a major politician. His expertise in agriculture seems to come more from being a governor than from intimate knowledge of policy.…

  • Don't forget the Secretary of Agriculture

    Ralph Maughan

    USDA has important wildlife, forestry, land and food safety jurisdiction- Most of our concern has been about the secretary of Interior, but the Secretary of Agriculture is equally important and almost always goes to some minion of industrial ag. So far the names floated by Obama don’t look good. Originally Obama was considering the industrial…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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