Bernadette Barber

Pasture Based Farm, Grass Fed Beef, Woods Edge Pork, Pastured Eggs, Grass Kickin' Chicken, Mushroom Logs, Seasonal Vegetables

[Greg Gunthorp @GGunthorp]

This is the bill most farmers and ranchers want. This is the bill most farmers think Prime Act gets them.

Prime Act doesn’t change that the facility still needs inspection. This Act would change that. Red Meat would be just like poultry then. Smallest would be exempt.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

I just introduced the Red Meat Inspection Exemption Act with @chelliepingree to allow small farmers to slaughter and process their own livestock for direct-to-consumer sales without federal interference.

This bill keeps Trump’s promise by reducing regulations on producers.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

The private equity takeover of local veterinary clinics is one of the most predatory scams happening in America right now.

Last month, our 3-year-old rescue dog threw up twice and seemed a little lethargic. Just acting off. We got nervous and rushed him to the local 24-hour emergency animal hospital.

Before a vet had even stepped into the room, the receptionist slid an iPad across the desk:

"Emergency exam intake fee is $385 non-refundable just for the doctor to evaluate him."

Fine. You pay it because you love your dog.

The vet walks in, checks his gums for twenty seconds, feels his stomach, and walks back out. Five minutes later, she returns with a printed estimate:

Full blood panel: $650.
Abdominal ultrasound: $900.
Overnight hospitalization with IV: $1,400.
Exploratory sedation: $800.
Total estimated cost: $3,750.

I asked the vet: "He ate a weird piece of grass earlier. Can we just start with an anti-nausea injection and monitor him for a couple of hours?"

The vet looked me dead in the eyes with a straight face and said:

"You can do that. But if he has a complete gastrointestinal blockage, he could go septic and pass away by sunrise."

Pure emotional manipulation.

They know your pet is family, so they hold your empathy hostage to hit corporate revenue quotas.

We declined the package, paid the exam fee, and took him home. Fed him white rice and boiled chicken. Two hours later, he drank a bowl of water, took a long nap, and was running circles around the yard by 8:00 AM the next morning.

Massive private corporations bought out almost every neighborhood mom-and-pop vet clinic, turned them into profit mills, and weaponized our love for animals into maximum billing.

Has modern veterinary medicine become an emotional shakedown, or are people just ungrateful for specialized care?

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

We are quietly isolating an entire generation of older people from society, and nobody seems to give a damn.

I took my 84-year-old grandfather to his local bank branch on Friday.

The exact same brick-and-mortar branch where he opened his first account in 1978.

We pull up to the front doors. They’re locked.

Inside is an empty lobby with a small sign: “Cashless Service Hub.”

A young guy in a polo shirt opens the door and tells us:

“We don't handle teller deposits or paper checks here anymore. You just need to download the mobile portal and scan your routing number.”

My grandfather pulls out an old flip phone with a cracked screen and a paper pension check from his coat pocket.

His hands were visibly shaking.

The employee just shrugs.

“You can do it on an iPad, or have a family member manage the app for you.”

This man worked forty-two years in a manufacturing plant. Paid his taxes. Fought for this country.

And now he is made to feel completely useless and stripped of his dignity because he doesn't own an iOS device.

Tech isn't making life easier if it completely locks out the people who built the world we’re living in.

Are your elderly parents or grandparents running into this wall too?

[Farm Action @FarmActionUS]

This Nevada rancher just exposed the USDA’s double standards that are crushing independent meat processors.

Jack Payne: “Everything is just targeted to make it harder for the little guy and easier for the big guy.”

“And easier for the imported beef.”

“By USDA’s own admission, they only inspect 3% to 7% of this beef coming in.”

“Yet if you’re a local processor in Fallon, Nevada, you’ve got a USDA inspector standing over your shoulder the whole time.”

“Talking to our friends in Montana, they have to have warm water out to the cattle every 15 minutes.”

“Do you think that Tyson … has to have warm water out for 5,000 head of cattle every 15 minutes in the middle of winter?”

“No.”

“And without MCOOL, it isn’t going to make any difference.”

“Because we can’t sell meat locally because we can’t compete with the imported.”

@LonesomeLands

[The Buy American Movement - BuyDirectUSA ❤️🇺🇸 @BuyDirectUSA]

In 2005, Oneida shut the flatware factory in Sherrill, New York.

A town that had made silverware for MORE THAN 100 YEARS was supposed to be finished.

Two men refused to let that happen.

Their names are Matt Roberts and Greg Owens.

Roberts had managed that factory. Owens was another former Oneida manufacturing manager. When the company ended U.S. production, they bought the plant and the equipment and reopened it the NEXT DAY as Sherrill Manufacturing.

They did not have a giant rescue fund.
They did not have a Hollywood ending waiting.
They had a building, some machines, and a workforce that knew how to make forks, knives, and spoons.

At first they kept making product for Oneida.

Then Oneida pulled the remaining American work and sent it overseas.

That should have been the end.

It wasn’t.

They took government flatware contracts to keep the lights on. In 2010 they filed Chapter 11. They sold unused equipment. They sold space they could no longer fill. They leased back only the part of the factory they could still run.

They came out of bankruptcy in 2013.

Then they did the thing that saved the company.

They built their own brand: Liberty Tabletop.

They sold 18/10 stainless flatware straight to customers who wanted tableware MADE IN THE UNITED STATES.

Not through a department store that could drop them overnight.
Direct.

Today Liberty Tabletop is the only company still manufacturing stainless steel flatware in America.

Same town.
Same trade.
U.S. steel.
About 70 jobs.

They did not bring back 2,000 workers. Nobody did.

What they saved was the last line.

If you want American-made forks and spoons, this is the factory that still makes them.

Support Liberty Tabletop.
THIS is what keeping manufacturing in America actually looks like. 🇺🇸

[Dr. BP | Metabolism 2.0 @DrBPHealth]

Chronic stress raises cortisol.

Cortisol raises blood sugar.

Raised blood sugar triggers insulin.

Repeated insulin spikes causes insulin resistance.

Insulin resistance leads to pre-diabetes, Type 2 Diabetes, weight gain & heart disease.

And you thought stress was just a mental health issue.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

We ate sugar for 200 years before anything went wrong with it.

1700: 4lb a head a year.

1800: 18lb.

1900: 90lb, and the working man took it in his tea 6 times a day.

Obesity in 1900: about 3%. Diabetes rare enough that a doctor could name his cases.

1911: the first tin of cottonseed oil sold as food goes on the shelf. Mazola corn oil, the same year.

1960s: soybean oil in everything with a wrapper.

2000: the seed oils are a fifth of the calories in America.

Then the sugar started counting. Every gram of it doing damage it had not managed in two centuries of trying.

1999: sugar consumption peaks and starts to fall.

2020: it is down about 15% from that peak. Obesity is up from 30% to 42% over the same years.

Sugar went down. The waistline went up. The oil never moved off the shelf.

Sugar is guilty. It is guilty of exactly what it did, which was making a body already wrecked by the oil worse. It was never the one who kicked the door in.

They arrested the accomplice, put a tax on it, and left the ringleader in the fryer with a heart-healthy sticker on.

[Farm Action Fund @FarmActionFund]

Something has gone profoundly wrong in rural America.

For more than four decades, the federal government — under both political parties — has allowed a handful of corporations to seize control of the nation's food system, its farms, and its rural communities.

The consequences have devastated rural America and the farmers who grow our food.

They have driven the cost of groceries skyward for every American who eats.

Four companies now control 85 percent of the beef Americans eat. Five grocery retailers control half of all grocery sales nationwide — buying power that has squeezed independent grocers out of business and left countless small towns without a locally owned place to buy fresh food.

In rural America, the consequences are there for all to see.

Family farms have disappeared.

Main Streets have emptied.

Schools have consolidated.

Rural hospitals have been shuttered.

Young people have left with little reason to return.

And the communities that grow our food and raise our livestock have been forced to bear the staggering environmental and public health costs of industrial agriculture — polluted water, degraded land, and the illnesses that come with them.

Every American who shops for groceries pays more — not because farmers are prospering, but because the corporations standing between the farmer and the consumer have captured an ever-larger share of every food dollar.

This did not happen by accident.

It happened because the rules were written for corporations instead of people.

It happened because lobbying money flowed freely while the political will to resist it withered.

It happened because Washington looked the other way while consolidation quietly strangled competition, hollowed out rural communities, and rigged the markets that farmers, ranchers, and independent businesses depend upon to survive.

The men and women who grow America's food are among the hardest-working people in this nation.

They deserve fair prices, honest markets, and the freedom to farm without corporations dictating their contracts, controlling their inputs, and setting the terms.

No one who works hard and plays by the rules should struggle to afford the basics.

Rural communities deserve hospitals, schools, grocery stores, and local businesses that allow families to build prosperous lives and give young people a reason to stay.

Every American — regardless of where they live — deserves a food system that serves them rather than corporate monopolies.

A Bill of Rights does not ask for special treatment from our government.

It asks for fair treatment for the people who feed America and the places they call home.

It asks for honest competition instead of corporate control.

It asks for markets that reward hard work instead of monopoly power.

And it asks that the people of rural America enjoy the same opportunity, prosperity, and quality of life as their suburban and urban counterparts.

It is neither a Republican nor Democratic document.

It is an American document.

The corporations that have captured our food supply don't write checks to just one party — they buy influence in both. And the people paying the price — farmers, ranchers, rural families, and every American who eats — span every party, every state, and every ZIP code.

We are the Rural Independence Initiative.

A movement to lift our towns, build prosperous rural communities, save our rural schools and hospitals, and restore fair markets for the farmers who grow our food.

Join Us - https://t.co/J1WabIUnOo
Donate - https://t.co/pj1ZqEif2c

Joe Maxwell, President

[James Fishback @jamesfishback]

70% of college grads are not working a full time job in their field of study.

Amazon just laid off 30,000 Americans, and then hired 10,000 H-1Bs.

We have an America Last labor market, and both parties are complicit.

[Bernadette Barber @TallTreesFarm]

@SNAPNetwork Thanks for posting

[Homesteading4sovereignty @sovernTranch]

It’s been a while since I’ve beaten this horse but she needs a good bat to the head

Animals hate getting shocked

If your cows, sheep or goats eat wires or don’t respect fences, they have never been properly introduced to a hot wire

Comprehend what I said there

Not tickle wire…

Hot wire

You’re not gonna get that from a weak ass .25 joule solar charger

I mean an American made, ball shriveling red box of Mike Tyson in his prime punching power

Once they are broke to a real hot wire, they won’t ever purposely touch a hot wire again, i promise

What runs through wires in a solar site?

Going to pin this and will auto reply this post anytime anyone mentions cows or goats eating wires going forward

[Health Freedom Defense Fund @theHFDF]

Rep. Thomas Massie: “We didn’t get out of Covid because we have strong leaders.”

“We got out of Covid because some of you said: I’m not gonna comply.”

“If just like 5 or 10% of us do not comply … the system will fall apart.”

“Do that wherever you can.”

“Your finances.”

“How your kids get educated.”

“Where you buy your food.”

Non-compliance is one of the strongest tools that the health freedom movement has.

We’re winning huge victories and making historic progress at the state and local level in getting medical mandates outlawed.

In 2025, our Founder and President Leslie Manookian got almost all medical mandates banned in Idaho with the Idaho Medical Freedom Act.

Including vaccines.

Now, we’re leading the Medical Freedom Act Coalition alongside Stand for Health Freedom and over a dozen more MAHA/health freedom organizations to get that law passed in as many states as possible.

But tens of millions of Americans live under state governments that vehemently oppose your right to health freedom.

And as we saw during Covid, the federal government will do everything they can to scare you and push you into compliance.

Those who refused are the reason we finally ended the era of lockdowns and mandates.

@RepThomasMassie @RonPaulInstitut

[James Fishback @jamesfishback]

Last year, Amazon applied for 10,000 H-1B foreign worker visas.

Jeff Bozo refuses to hire you, your kids, or your grandkids.

He wants cheap foreign workers from India and China.

Foreigners will not replace us.

[Bernadette Barber @TallTreesFarm]

@RobWittman Food Freedom

[Farm Action @FarmActionUS]

“I just hope that somewhere along the line, at least the Secretary of Agriculture will WAKE UP and draw back her delays of these rules.”

Sen. Chuck Grassley is calling out USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins over the administration’s efforts to delay or rescind key Packers and Stockyards Act protections for farmers.

These rules were designed to increase transparency in poultry contracts and protect farmers from retaliation, discrimination, deceptive practices, and unfair payment systems.

Grassley highlighted what’s at stake for family farmers who make major investments in their operations and need meaningful protections against unfair practices by the massive corporations they contract with.

“They haven’t had their contracts honored fully the way they should be honored.”

Grassley, along with Sens. Cory Booker and Adam Schiff, hoped to add a bipartisan amendment to the Senate Farm Bill that would have made these producer protections permanent in law, but the amendment was not added.

That makes USDA’s decision on these rules even more consequential.

Farm Action has been clear: You cannot claim to fight monopoly power in agriculture while stripping away rules designed to protect farmers dealing with some of the most powerful corporations in the food system.

Farmers deserve fair contracts, transparent markets, and meaningful protection from corporate abuse.

@ChuckGrassley

[Farm Action @FarmActionUS]

EXPOSED:

The USDA forced every pig farmer in America to pay for this coloring book promoting factory farming practices.

It’s meant to teach kids what a pig farm is supposed to look like.

But it shows pigs raised entirely indoors.

Mothers confined in a metal crate while nursing piglets.

It tells kids that keeping pigs away from the mud keeps them “happy and healthy.”

And this is not just private industry propaganda.

It’s funded by the Pork Checkoff, a government program that all pig farmers are required to pay into.

That means independent farmers who raise pigs outdoors with space to move and freely interact with their piglets were forced to pay for a booklet that denigrates their practices and promotes their competitors.

This booklet is just one example of the abuses uncovered in the mandatory checkoff programs.

Checkoff dollars should never pick winners and losers.

But it speaks to a much larger problem across our food system.

Between 1980 and 2022, the number of pig operations shrank by more than 70%.

Minnesota, where this booklet was handed out, has lost more than 55% of its pig farms in the last two decades. 

Read our full blog on this corporate abuse and the deeper problem of monopolization it reveals below:🧵

[Health Freedom Defense Fund @theHFDF]

Rep. Thomas Massie: “Exist outside of the system as much as you can.”

“Get your food outside of the system.”

“Do your finances outside of the system.”

“If you can communicate outside of the system, do that.”

“If you can educate outside of the system, do that.”

“Generate as much of your energy outside the system as you can.”

This is true freedom.

True health freedom means taking care of your own health without relying on Big Pharma.

Our freedoms are given to us by God, not granted by government.

@RepThomasMassie @brownstoneinst

[Bernadette Barber @TallTreesFarm]

@SecRollins Take care of our own first!! #PrimeAct