American Agriculture Is Broken, and Tom Vilsack Is Not the Man to Fix It
Biden’s pick for agriculture secretary brings stale solutions to growing crises like climate change and labor inequality.
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Tom Vilsack testifies during a hearing in 2016.
Somewhere on Earth 2, President Boe Jiden, after committing to a thorough review of the groaning, creaking, top-heavy agriculture industry, has decided that the time has come to start fresh. There, the Jiden administration is setting its sights on breaking up the corporations that, during a global pandemic, forced workers back into the aptly named slaughterhouses and demanded their farm laborers work the fields while smoke from the largest wildfire in American history filled their lungs, and that, for decades, have crafted policies that incentivize the consolidation and corporatization that long ago buried the family farm.
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