Monday, November 25, 2024

Whig Action In Meat Processing

The USDA Meat and Poultry Processing Expansion Program has delivered the last of $325 million in grants to 74 US meat packers under the American Rescue Plan.

The rural agriculture community is well-represented in a congress that knows it can't get away with ignoring the most basic human need, affordable food, while showering money on quantum computing, renewable electrical power, CO 2 sequestration, and the other components of climate anxiety, not to mention financing a meaningless war between European gangster states.

Just the same, using government grants to establish and improve sausage makers and turkey processors seems to fly in the face of capitalism and free markets. The Farmers Union Foundation in Minnesota has received $603,582 for several projects including an educational program in meat cutting at the Central Lakes College in Staples, MN. The Farmers Union also owns and operates a restaurant across the street from the chic Guthrie Theater on the bank of the Mississippi.

   

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