A Letter to the USDA

I included this letter as part of my "mandatory" response to a USDA survey of my business.

Dear Department of Agriculture employee,

I am including this short letter per your request for comments on the U.S.D.A. survey.  This is only my opinion of course…but I consider you to be an employee of a criminal organization.  I believe that the leadership/management of the USDA functions, on behalf of a group of the world’s wealthiest people, to establish and maintain chemical rather than biological agriculture.  I believe this to have been the case since Henry Wallace, a knowledgeable supporter of biological agriculture, was removed as FDR’s vice president in 1944.  I was a two year old Texan in 1947 when an early shipment of ammonium nitrate blew up the town of Texas City.  All of the new synthetic fertilizers of that day came from ammunition factories owned by these same wealthy men and they all had to have this new market or shut down. The world was at peace.

Along with these destructive synthetic fertilizers of have come all the other toxic synthetic products of industrial agriculture. Their use has spread environmental poisoning and devastation for 70 years.  It’s like we fought WWII all over again on our own soil.  Those of us with cancer are the “wounded in battle”.  The profits of agriculture have been taken from the farm and moved to the owners of the factories.

Your employer has allowed, even encouraged, industry and ranchers to manufacture and use Grazon ™ in order to turn manure, a necessity for biological agriculture, into a toxic product.  USDA sponsored industrial agriculture has turned our country into an eroded poisoned swamp instead of the healthy rich land it should be.  Do not let me get started on the hideous fluoride pollution from big agriculture’s phosphorus production.  Over a 45 year career in agriculture I have come to know the exact truth of what’s going on.

In the meantime our farmland needs men in the pastures and forests doing erosion control, establishing  and clearing vegetation, protecting springs,  and managing co-operative grazing.  We need work in seed production and the legalization and establishment of hemp production.  Did you know that Russia is now establishing organic agriculture everywhere and that Putin says Russia will be the world’s center of eco-agriculture.  Good for them, they are showing you the way. 

Of course you know that you will not be promoted to higher levels in the USDA if you state that you prefer a return to biological agriculture.  It is past time for lower ranking employers who still have a conscience to demand control of the department from the current paid off members of management who are running it now.  The nation is waiting and hoping for this to happen.