Farmers "Irrelevant?"

"Farmers "Irrelevant?" The USDA chief says rural America is becoming less relevant.

Really? It's easy for some bloated dumbass in D.C with a full fridge to make that kind of claim.

Let's see how "relevant" farmers are when that fridge is empty and, you've regulated the price of food to the point where a person with an honest job can't afford to buy it anymore.

I'll be interested to see how tasty and filling those food stamps are to the parasites browsing empty shelves at the supermarket!

I say to Mr Villsack...keep running your mouth!
Keep making it harder for family farms to run the gauntlet of your regulations and adding unnecessary costs to the price of food for everyone!

The result will be MORE people buying direct from their local farmer and skirting the bullshit and regulations while getting a good deal and a full freezer despite the government's efforts.

Co-op food...what's that?

Instead of a customer buying a hog ( for example ) from a farmer at butchering time, the buy it upfront as a piglet and "store" it on the farm under the care of the farmer.
They pay the cost of buying, feeding and maintaining their "pet" and, the butchering fee while giving the farmer a "donation" for his time and space.

The farmer avoids having to play government games since he's never actually owned the animal...he just boards it...and the customer ends up with a freezer full of pork that is raised to his specifications without all the expense and runaround.

From farm, to butcher, to freezer...which is the way it should be.

Yeah...we're "irrelevant" as a voting block to the shitbags in D.C.

But, we're pretty damned "relevant" when people are hungry and, I'll bet my last dollar that ANY other voting block will side with their stomachs over the empty promises from an asshole in a suit.

The government can promise to feed you...
but,
without a farmer to grow it, that promise isn't worth a damned at all.

Eat all the promises the you want...I'm having chops!