Folks, we're barely 24 hours past Trump officially winning the 2024 election, and we're already getting news like this:
...Joel Salatin, a self-described 'Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer' who runs Polyface Farms in western Virginia, wrote on his blog that Massie would be Agriculture secretary in the Trump administration.
'I've been contacted by the Trump transition team to hold some sort of position within the USDA and have accepted one of the six ‘Advisor to the Secretary' spots. My favorite congressman, Thomas Massie from Kentucky, has agreed to go in as Secretary of Agriculture,' Salatin said.
Every sharp critic of government agriculture policy is reading this like:
Joel Salatin, in case you're unfamiliar with him, is indeed a "Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer" who for years has been running the hugely influential and wildly successful Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia.
Polyface is a prime example of what experts call "bio-mimicry," in which farm animals are raised in a way that reflects their historical natural behaviors. Salatin has for decades been at the forefront of a movement that's sharply critical of modern farming practices, including the USDA's support of it.
(In fact, he's so contemptuous of the USDA that he doesn't even call it the USDA — he calls it the US-Duh.
He is known for a series of books sharply criticizing modern government, food and farming practices, including the iconic "Everything I Want to Do is Illegal:"
To say that this guy could help radically reshape U.S. agricultural policy is an understatement.
Not two days into a new Trump Era and he's already making dynamite calls like this. A good sign, folks!
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