Rep. Thomas Massie is on the brink of securing a huge win for small farmers.
His PRIME Act is officially included in the 2026 Farm Bill.
If this passes, it will deliver a blow to Big Ag’s stranglehold on the meatpacking industry.
“This would make it easier for local farmers to sell directly to local consumers using a local slaughterhouse.”
How?
It would cut the USDA out of inspections for local processing facilities.
“You don’t need the USDA to inspect a facility that has seven employees.”
“So what I’ve proposed is that you could just have the local health inspection… inspecting these slaughterhouses.”
“As long as you don’t cross state lines, you shouldn’t need the federal government’s involvement in this processing.”
“The good news is, I got that in the Farm Bill.”
@RepThomasMassie
The important lesson is nothing will happen to this person no matter how astonishingly unfit he is to be a US Senator.
He won’t be thrown out of office or lose his pension or be shunned by his neighbors. His career, including post-Senate prostitution, won’t suffer. He won’t be poor or lose face at all. He won’t have to go work at Home Depot to survive.
All that matters is incentives. That’s how you get “Tim Kaine.” America deserves him.
Happy 90th birthday to @RonPaul: a perfect day to recount one of the most impressive moments in a GOP Presidential debate, when -- in 2007 -- Paul was the only candidate to condemn the Iraq War, and warned that endless war provokes attacks like 9/11, as GOP lobbyists booed:
Sad @colbertlateshow is cancelled. I'll miss moments like this, where Claire Danes is talking about "the intelligence community allying itself with journalists" & Colbert abruptly changes the subject!
If you're forced to live a more political life as a matter of self-defense, your country is headed in the wrong direction.
If you're forced chase yield instead of simple thrift & saving, your currency is headed in the wrong direction.