Joshua Welch

[Joshua Welch @apd153]

@jockowillink Please, sir, run for president and fix this world!

[Joshua Welch @apd153]

@JackPosobiec Every single day. Books and Podcasts only…

[Joshua Welch @apd153]

@ronniejmartin Looking good Ronnie! Loved Chino back in the day. Be safe!

[Joshua Welch @apd153]

@DefiantLs Chanel 1

[Joshua Welch @apd153]

@BasedMikeLee Turn soy and corn fields back into pasture ground. Raise ruminants on pasture and enough rows crops to feed chickens and hogs. More farmers and ranchers could be involved w/o big ag machinery and chemicals.

[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

Our food system is broken. Farmer @JoelSalatin has an idea for how President Trump can fix it: "We need a food emancipation proclamation... We need to take the shackles off of a farmer so that the farmer can sell to his neighbor."

[Joshua Welch @apd153]

@matt_gowdy @RepThomasMassie Fair point. Sadly the cost of USDA inspectors is cost prohibited for small abattoirs. The needs/“requirements” of state inspectors isn’t the same. The quality of state inspection is equal to or better. Ultimately not fixing this hurts the rancher and consumer.

[Joshua Welch @apd153]

@MattFinkes Pittsburgh has been drafting Buckeyes for years. Seems to workout for them….

[Joshua Welch @apd153]

@FarmActionUS If meat is "state" inspected, USDA "inspection" shouldn't matter for those who want to purchase or sell "across a state line". Ranchers and farmers who sell direct shouldn't be limited to USDA facilities to process their animals.

[Joshua Welch @apd153]

@adamtirapelle No clock, all overtime once it begins has to end with a takedown.

[Joshua Welch @apd153]

@JoshWilliamsOH @calleymeans If we’re actually now focused on “Health”, Awesome! Now ban data centers in Ohio. The ones that will poison our water…..

[Tom Elliott @tomselliott]

Could the United States feed the United States without glyphosate?

Short answer: obviously yes

The main problem with our food system is that it’s being run out of Washington.

That’s why we have vast swaths of farmland doing stupid things that make no sense except to bureaucrats in D.C. — maxing out soybean exports, subsidizing domestic sugar production, growing the majority of corn for ethanol (something that’s bad for cars but good for the egos of D.C. politicos), etc.

We got to this point through the usual way: the cost of business ia slowly driven up, via regulations & the rest of it, until most farmers can only afford to sell out to Tyson, etc. Then lobbyists convince lawmakers monocropping & pesticides are the only way to affordably feed Americans, and laws are enacted exempting manufacturers from liability, only quickening these trends.

In the past 8 years, we’ve lost up to 170,000 farms — 1 in 15. Meanwhile, only 10 percent of U.S. corn feeds humans; the rest feeds animals or cars. On the other side of the equation, 85 percent of farmers have to work off-farm. Yet 80 percent of the Farm Bill is SNAP. It’s like a self perpetuating cyclone of bad decision making & worse consequences.

As long as things are being run out of bureaucracies, we could at least do so through the prism of enabling local communities to feed local communities.

Easy layups:

— SNAP benefits double for whole foods, and/or can only be redeemed for foods with less than ~5 ingredients.
— Farmers get low-interest loans
— No more subsidies for monocropping
— USDA lets farmers slaughter their own meat
— Monsanto-style liability indemnity is removed so everyone’s competing on a level playing field

People here probably already know about Joel Salatin and his Virginia-based regenerative/permaculture farm, Polyface, as it appeared Michael Pollen’s popular documentary, The Onnivore’s Dilemma.

Salatin & other regenerative farmers have written dozens of books showing how farms that replicate patterns we find in nature — herbivores graze before chickens scavenge, before the land transitions from pasture to agriculture te animals again, all of which increases the fertility of the land year after year.

Salatin: “Plants and animals should be provided a habitat that allows them to express their physiological distinctiveness. Respecting and honouring the pigness of the pig is a foundation for societal health."

Practicing farming as God intended wouldn’t only be good for the planet, but could also expand supply.

Market summaries report that diversified regenerative farms can match or exceed conventional yields and even increase total productivity over time — with one dataset claiming regenerative systems can yield ~78% more food per acre total calories when considering diversified outputs, not just one crop.

Polyface Farm, at just ~500 acres, supplies thousands of local families and dozens of restaurants — prioritizing multiple outputs per acre (meat, eggs, vegetables, grass-fed products) instead of a single commodity yield.

And studies have found nearly 30 million acres of U.S. cropland that have been abandoned since the 1980s.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Enforcing the Talking Filibuster isn’t “nuking” the filibuster

It involves making senators speak—not sleep—to filibuster

Consistent with Senate rules

It can be hard work, but sometimes that’s necessary—and passing the SAVE America Act is worth the effort

Share if you agree

[Joshua Welch @apd153]

@CoachDanGo Have a personal relationship with your “farmer”, know where all of your food comes from.

[Iran Spectator @IranSpec]

⚠️ 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬 ⚠️

🇮🇷 | MASSACRE FOOTAGE HAS BEEN LEAKED FROM IRAN!

We can see armed forces gunning down unarmed civilians in the streets.

REPOST, RETWEET, RETWEET!

[Alex @Realalexclark]

PARENTS AND FUTURE PARENTS: 🚨 Do you want 57,000+ pesticide products and ALL future chemicals to get immunity from lawsuits?

This means:
⚠️ Toxic products sold with warning labels that don’t allow informed consent
⚠️ Foreign corporations can sell dangerous chemicals in the U.S. with zero accountability
⚠️ Children exposed to increasingly dangerous chemicals = higher risks of cancer, infertility & altered sexual development

We can’t let Bayer/Monsanto get away with fraud. Share this, talk about their fake safety studies, and make noise on X. The Supreme Court needs to know: this case is FRAUD. We want them to deny review of Monsanto v Durnell.

Thank you @benshapiro for having me on today to discuss this urgent issue 🌾

[Joshua Welch @apd153]

@HemmerleinLee Prayers!

[Joshua Welch @apd153]

@dom_lucre Should have left him in Russia.