{"id":1322,"date":"2020-12-07T19:43:07","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T19:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=134790"},"modified":"2020-12-07T19:43:07","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T19:43:07","slug":"tom-vilsack-a-friend-of-big-ag-is-the-wrong-choice-for-usda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/07\/tom-vilsack-a-friend-of-big-ag-is-the-wrong-choice-for-usda\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Vilsack, a Friend of Big Ag, Is the Wrong Choice for USDA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/u7061146.ct.sendgrid.net\/ls\/click?upn=4tNED-2FM8iDZJQyQ53jATUVKjeI34iisUO6eSAa9j6OpiSxgqYUljB7kx-2BW-2F9OFen-2Fq23t-2BB22J-2FNNQBf1UFk3V3Br1Tu0x1amKUUMYUEULA-3DL4i6_8HgrYPAK-2BeaR-2FVipkabFyr64xvcd1RrMrVor17f-2Ffft8MGcFfyvxLlBadbWiTpxK8bc492sB1-2F0NJsMMZfhQjbKzjgd0hFXGOLYC1cFmtMvzMvRpKSwiBeGV1NGI8gc6gBu-2BWDhOVnFUCHQXx-2FPHDGsAUpBFyZbK8vPkr-2B8ZYm6D43PoRqb9dfkWMwofmC-2FlBCu8KUmaJNtY7wI6H7nn2IYiBjhLxwrPQ5SATSRMd3SK-2B20Ye97BmszQGT4CcYWejj4DLwZhIfdBFf-2BQJmyJF2IsYRzpV9tfO5Kbd01fgXVPlx-2FXazMVRvenUlhdrRAYXIgm5cl3hzAq2efsGNKrFMKyr1OGquy3UelzeFAa4xE-3D\">News reports<\/a>&nbsp;today indicate that President-elect Biden is considering appointing former Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to return as head of the USDA. In response,&nbsp;Food &amp; Water Watch Policy Director Mitch Jones&nbsp;issued the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTom Vilsack has a long and detailed record on food and agriculture \u2013 a record that clearly demonstrates why he would be a very bad pick to lead the USDA. Much like Senator Heitkamp, Vilsack has made a career of catering to the whims of corporate agriculture giants \u2013 some of whom he has gone to work for \u2013 while failing to fight for struggling family farmers at every turn. America needs an agriculture secretary that will finally prioritize sustainable family farming and national food security over corporate profits. Tom Vilsack has proven he will not be the Agriculture leader we need.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"block-inject-16\" class=\"block-inject block-inject-16\">\n<div id=\"block-block-86\" class=\"block block--block block--block-86\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Food &amp; Water Watch, along with a broad coalition of farm, environmental, food safety and animal welfare organizations,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/u7061146.ct.sendgrid.net\/ls\/click?upn=4tNED-2FM8iDZJQyQ53jATURPsDfKLwB-2BV1-2Fl0sFzWZ8nUOFVANB51WbduNY8YXOCGfGl9LG5VBrVX5JPxqTlRQeLK-2FbL31ycOjXLclNMwTP3FUL9-2BqD-2FGwSLHek6ayHm7vfsLMzU-2Byukoqtysxj8xUpcQjBX-2BhlcqXb8jyHukrVRtlrolxp3X-2B61-2B-2FTBC-2BKA58pAr2cPRgcT12p7F5Fy6wR6XJ-2FJx1szYB-2BIwK0zuWlxXGBDVWrV-2BPuG8Ukrv5afipy-p_8HgrYPAK-2BeaR-2FVipkabFyr64xvcd1RrMrVor17f-2Ffft8MGcFfyvxLlBadbWiTpxK8bc492sB1-2F0NJsMMZfhQjbKzjgd0hFXGOLYC1cFmtMvzMvRpKSwiBeGV1NGI8gc6gBu-2BWDhOVnFUCHQXx-2FPHDGsAUpBFyZbK8vPkr-2B8ZYm6D43PoRqb9dfkWMwofmC-2FlBCu8KUmaJNtY7wI6H7nn2KkmMP2c6ipSXqT13sa6IkzkBRQ-2B2YKn2WXEdYR5jor1mL-2BXonXbVtlZVAbzru6RysxM79OHMRCMVXgOpSUzoftrO4HkfnpPn4GFbegvYw7kBilsi7ByWIHt5oJvahWcZnqICcfKPV32HVlVL2HE6V8-3D\">recently endorsed Rep. Marcia Fudge<\/a>&nbsp;(D-OH) to be the next Agriculture secretary.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/07\/tom-vilsack-a-friend-of-big-ag-is-the-wrong-choice-for-usda\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 News reports\u00a0today indicate that President-elect Biden is considering appointing former Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to return as head of the USDA. In response,\u00a0Food &amp; Water Watch\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1323,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions\/1323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}