I can’t believe the Biden administration is considering appointing Tom Vilsack again as the US Secretary for Agriculture! In my opinion, that was the first mistake the Obama administration made, and now Biden is considering doing the same thing!! Tom Vilsack was twice named “Governor of the Year” by the biotech industry!

We’ve got to stop him! Vilsack proved where his alliance was when he failed to protect food workers, did little to combat the agency’s racist policies, and championed industrial agriculture over family farmers.

The Center for Food Safety’s (CFS) Policy Director, Jaydee Hanson, issued the following statements:        “The possible selection of Former Secretary Vilsack for President Biden’s Agriculture Secretary is a huge step backwards in our urgent need to support agricultural systems that protect public health, the environment, and mitigate the ongoing climate crisis.”

“While serving as Secretary under President Obama, Mr. Vilsack supported chemically-dependent industrial agriculture that resulted in millions more pounds of pesticides released into the environment, contaminating our water and soils and harming human health and wildlife. In addition, during his tenure the meat industry grew larger and more concentrated, contributing to the climate crisis. Mergers in the meat industry grew larger and larger—even when huge Chinese and Brazilian operations bought up U.S. operations, Vilsack’s USDA did not protest. Vilsack supported the expansion of pesticide-promoting, genetically engineered crops, and was not a strong supporter of organic agriculture.”

We need President Elect, Joe Biden to pick a Secretary of Agriculture who will aggressively tackle climate change, confront racial inequities in the food system and reverse concentration within the agriculture industry. Ohio Rep. Marcia Fudge is at the top of the list of Grassroots organization.

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