Nicole Shanahan: Corruption has been hidden under the mask of progressive values

Nicole Shanahan: "I think that there's a great deal of corruption that has been hidden under the mask of progressive values around conservation and climate management. And I'm really concerned having seen some of the actions under this administration, how they have treated farmers around this country like criminals. We've seen more raids of small family farms, organic farms."

"I mean, this wasn't happening in the 90s. We've seen attacks on raw milk production. We've seen raids of Amish farms in this country. I've seen the words conservation and aquifers floated around. But when you actually look at the behaviors here in the state of California, we've been out of a drought for the last three years. Now would have been the time to invest."

"I have a full map of every farm in the state of California and how we should have been investing in those farms and restoring those aquifers. Instead, they're paying farmers to fallow their lands. They have a pilot program here to fallow their lands. And we know that California is a test bed for these policies."

"And if they work here, they spin them out into the rest of the country. Tom Vilsack has very much been a puppet. of what I think is this climate death cult that looks at human and human needs through this very negative lens."

"And they are blind to this whole other body of science, the body of soil science that says if we restore the soil organic matter, S-O-M, soil organic matter of our soil by like 5%, we can pay off an enormity. of our carbon debt and our emissions debt."

"And we get the added benefit of feeding people healthy, nutritious food, because when you increase the soil organic matter of our lands, it goes directly into the seeds and the roots and the leaf, and we get to consume all of that."