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Local and regional food systems are about opportunity. - Tom Vilsa

Local and regional food systems are about opportunity. – Tom Vilsack

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When youve paid your debt to society, you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society. – Tom Vilsack

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Society
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In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income. – Tom Vilsack

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Family
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If you think of what food is, its the energy we use to do our daily work. I want people to know about the USDA. This is a very important department. Its not fully appreciated as such. – Tom Vilsack

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Food
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When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. Theres more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? Whats their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides? – Jerry Brown

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Food

When I come home from a shoot, Id rather reheat food Ive made than eat takeout. – Ted Allen

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Food

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable. – Gloria Steinem

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Food

People see you onstage and the glamorous side, but they dont see you traveling 600 miles a night, eating truck stop food and spending by yourself staring at walls. – Jason Aldean

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Food

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