{"id":1795,"date":"2020-12-10T13:36:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T13:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=137154"},"modified":"2020-12-10T13:36:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T13:36:35","slug":"why-bidens-pick-of-tom-vilsack-for-agriculture-secretary-is-a-missed-opportunity-for-the-usda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/10\/why-bidens-pick-of-tom-vilsack-for-agriculture-secretary-is-a-missed-opportunity-for-the-usda\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Biden&#8217;s Pick of Tom Vilsack for Agriculture Secretary Is a Missed Opportunity for the USDA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2020\/12\/10\/ricardo_salvador_usda_tom_vilsack\"><img style=\"float:right;padding-left:5px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/images\/story\/46\/55746\/w320\/SEG3-Vilsack-2.jpg\" alt=\"Seg3 vilsack 2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Progressives and environmental and labor activists are objecting to President-elect Joe Biden&#8217;s selection of Tom Vilsack to be his agriculture secretary, reprising the role he held in the Obama administration. Those opposed to Vilsack&#8217;s nomination say he has a record of supporting corporate interests over those of farmers, loosening regulations and backing genetically modified, herbicide-resistant crops. The <span class=\"caps\">NAACP<\/span> has pointed to Vilsack&#8217;s role in firing former <span class=\"caps\">USDA<\/span> official Shirley Sherrod in 2010 as disqualifying. Biden&#8217;s pick of Vilsack is a missed opportunity to reshape the U.S. Department of Agriculture, says Ricardo Salvador, director of the Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. &#8220;Going back to a secretary of the past is not the way to strike in a new direction. That is status quo.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/10\/why-bidens-pick-of-tom-vilsack-for-agriculture-secretary-is-a-missed-opportunity-for-the-usda\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progressives and environmental and labor activists are objecting to President-elect Joe Biden\u2019s selection of Tom Vilsack to be his agriculture secretary, reprising the role he held in the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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\/1795"}],"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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1796,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions\/1796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}