Deep gratitude to President Biden, Dr. Jill Biden, VP Harris, Sec. Cardona, Sec. Vilsack, and Dr. Murthy for their unwavering leadership in education, gun safety, and justice. Your resilience and dedication to the American people ❤️. #Grateful #Hope #Biden #Harris #Vilsack #Cardona #Murthy

Ag Secretary Vilsack Pushes Petroleum Farming Inputs, Fights EU’s Climate-Friendly Organic “Farm to Fork’ Initiative - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog (Beyond Pesticides, October 8, 2021) Taking a page from the playbook of Trump Administration Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue, the current secretary, Tom Vilsack, used a September G20 summit in Italy to target the European Union’s “Farm to Fork” (F2F) strategy, a part of its European Green Deal. Mr. Perdue had said that F2F is “more . . . ‘political science’ than demonstrated agricultural science”; Secretary Vilsack called it “a path very different from the one the U.S. is pursuing.” The F2F initiative aims to transition the EU to a sustainable food system such that it also achieves significant mitigation of climate change. But Mr. Vilsack chose to counter the F2F efforts by promoting an “alternative strategy” — under the moniker “Coalition for Productivity Growth” — through which “other nations pledge not to follow the European path on farm policy.” He has described this alternative, U.S.-led strategy as “a market-oriented, incentive-based, voluntary system [that] is effective” at slashing agricultural carbon emissions. Climate, pesticide, organics, and other environmental and health advocates, including Beyond Pesticides, are troubled by these actions. Mother Jones poses the central question in the headline of its September 30 article: Why is Secretary Vilsack So Afraid of a Plan to Cut […]

"At a time when climate change can’t be ignored — with droughts, floods, and fires menacing our key #farming regions — a Democratic #agriculture secretary is ambling down the same pesticide-scented path trod by Trump.” #organic #climatecrisis #Vilsack

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“@MicheleRSimon: according to @hagstromreport, during #shutdown USDA's ethics office will be closed. 'nuff said.” How can we tell? #Vilsack

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“@michaelpollan: Who ever thought the Obama Administration would b the 1 to weaken the organic program?" Me. firedoglake.com/2008/12/20/obama-serves-... #Vilsack

#Sherrod doesn't want your raggedy job anymore, #Vilsack. But I bet she tryna get PIZ-ZAID! *in Chappelle's Tron voice*

Movies & children's books should be written about Shirley #Sherrod & her steadfastness. A nightmare, this is, Sec. #Vilsack