BY JIM HIGHTOWER In December 1972, I was part of a nationwide campaign that came tantalizingly close to getting the U.S. Senate to reject Earl Butz, Richard Nixon’s choice for secretary of agriculture. A coalition of grass-roots farmers, consumers and scrappy public interest organizations [like the Agribusiness Accountability Project that Susan DeMarco and I then headed] teamed up with some gutsy, unabashedly progressive senators to undertake the almost impossible challenge of defeating the cabinet nominee […]

This Thanksgiving, Let’s Celebrate AgriCULTURE, Not AgriBUSINESS
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