Why should you care who the Secretary of Agriculture is in Iowa if you don’t live here?
Do you want locally-grown healthy food at your local supermarket? Do you avoid meat and dairy products that are saturated with hormones and antibiotics, or do you buy them because the alternatives are three times the price? Iowa has the most prime farmland, grows the most corn and soybeans, has the most hogs and chickens, and has the most influence on agricultural policy of any state. We Iowans have led the country in industrialized agriculture, to the detriment of our air, our water, and our warming planet. And unlike Las Vegas, what happens in Iowa doesn’t stay in Iowa.
Francis Thicke wants to change all that. Thicke is a Democrat, PhD, organic dairy farmer, educator, and innovative passionate advocate for sustainable, environmentally-sound agricultural practices. If Francis is elected, it will be a cause for hope for consumers who would like their food without a side of chemicals and lethal bacteria, and for supporters of sustainable agriculture and alternative energy.
Hope and change. It started here.
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