{"id":50871,"date":"2021-02-23T17:30:23","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T17:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=165981"},"modified":"2021-02-23T17:30:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T17:30:23","slug":"vilsacks-confirmation-to-usda-is-a-warning-sign-for-family-farmers-and-food-worker-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/23\/vilsacks-confirmation-to-usda-is-a-warning-sign-for-family-farmers-and-food-worker-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Vilsack\u2019s Confirmation to USDA Is a Warning Sign for Family Farmers and Food, Worker Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; Tom Vilsack will be confirmed as Agriculture secretary by the U.S. Senate this afternoon. In anticipation, Food &amp; Water Watch Executive Director Wenonah Hauter has issued the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can confidently predict what Tom Vilsack\u2019s leadership of the Agriculture Department will look like, because he\u2019s led it before. And the prediction is grim. In his previous stint at USDA, Vilsack backed mass corporate consolidation of our food system at the expense of struggling family farmers. Similarly, he readily advanced industry-driven initiatives allowing companies to inspect their own poultry processing plants, dismantling federal oversight of food and worker safety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis administration needs to drastically shift course from the Trump era by supporting sustainable, independent farming, halting the toxic expansion of polluting factory farms, and ultimately prioritizing consumer health and worker safety. We have little hope that Tom Vilsack cares to undertake this effort, so we will be pressuring him doggedly to see the light.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/02\/23\/vilsacks-confirmation-to-usda-is-a-warning-sign-for-family-farmers-and-food-worker-safety\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 Tom Vilsack will be confirmed as Agriculture secretary by the U.S. Senate this afternoon. In anticipation, Food &amp; Water Watch Executive Director Wenonah Hauter has issued\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\/50871"}],"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=50871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50872,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50871\/revisions\/50872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}