Iowa has long been the giant of U.S. agriculture, not just in producing grain and livestock but also in collecting federal crop subsides.
Now with Tom Vilsack as agriculture secretary, the state will have one of its own at the helm of the department that dispenses those subsidies, controls nearly 2 million acres of Iowa land through a single conservation program and regulates the state's many meatpackers.
The Obama administration, meanwhile, will get an agriculture secretary who is sympathetic to big agribusiness that dominates Iowa and a believer in biofuels and agricultural biotechnology.
Oh no.
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3 comments:
Lets not forget the power plants,
bovine flatulence and wood burning
fireplaces.
Excess consumption of Jalepenos
can one's comode to explode!
A**hole!!!!
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