benji ballmer

husband of 1, father of 4, love to recreate with my brothers and sisters(this means you)

[Holden Culotta @Holden_Culotta]

Thomas Massie just sounded the alarm:

Congress is on the verge of handing Monsanto total immunity to mass poison Americans with glyphosate.

This is existential for MAHA.

“If farmers contract a form of cancer … from this chemical, if this makes it into the Farm Bill, you won’t be able to sue.”

Instead of pushing to repeal Big Pharma’s vaccine liability shield, Trump and his cronies are trying to expand immunity for even more poison.

It’s a complete betrayal of MAHA.

And it would cause vastly more harm than all of the benefits that MAHA has done combined.

@RepThomasMassie @MassieforKY

[benji ballmer @bballmer]

@davematthewsbnd Columbus, OH 1998

[Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab]

Oatmeal (and I think that’s rice and sourdough) made the cut! In all seriousness, assuming overall calories are kept in check and people exercise & get sun(day)light, this looks spot on. Maybe up the veggies a bit, add low sugar fermented foods like sauerkraut & this is great.

[White Oak Pastures @whiteoakpasture]

Just another day at White Oak Pastures where cattle are turning grass into beef and dirt into soil. Beef isn't just "what's for dinner," it's what is going to restore our landscapes and rebuild our communities.

@kawasakiUSA

[benji ballmer @bballmer]

My health care provider gets up before sunrise to feed animals and grow food. The least I can do is pay them more.

[Farm Action @FarmActionUS]

Independent farmers are getting CRUSHED by corporate power.

Farm Action’s Sarah Carden, a first-generation farmer, just revealed how market consolidation is squeezing her small vegetable farm:

“We have worked tooth and nail to carve out access to 40 acres of farmland, because farmland prices are so expensive.”

“Trying to start a farm now, looking at what you know, being able to access a couple hundred acres or thousand acres is really not a realistic pathway for a first-generation farmer in a lot of areas right now.”

“But then what do you sell into? There’s really not a lot of markets … particularly where you can actually get a price point that's going to look at these input costs.”

“We do a lot of heirloom tomatoes. We had a buyer who was taking 6-10 skids a week from us … I think it was $22 a flat we were getting.”

“One week they just said, we’re going to pay you $13 now and that’s it—and there’s nowhere else for us to go with those tomatoes.”

“You have to either take that price or you just plow the crop in.”

“Farmers don’f have any room to move anything around. They're just sort of squeezed between all of these major buyers and sellers.”

[benji ballmer @bballmer]

@FarmActionUS And in doing so, let's watch the health of our consumers go up as they eat food that promotes health!

[benji ballmer @bballmer]

@AnnaRMatson If you really want to make a difference, stop incentivizing farmers to use their land to grow GMO crops, and turn it back into grass that our cattle can graze on...solves the climate crisis as well!

[Dave Matthews Band @davematthewsbnd]

The world has lost a giant but she left us with the idea that hope is an act of resistance in a world run by greed and cruelty. She was a fierce defender of social and environmental justice, which to her, went hand in hand.

She was my dear friend and I will miss her.

[benji ballmer @bballmer]

@concertvids34 30 year DMB listener and concert goer. Been listening to Goose nonstop since they released Everything Must Go in Jan. Seeing them full send for the first time in Columbus later this month!

[benji ballmer @bballmer]

@stoolpresidente Pizza Nerds https://t.co/FnhSs3mXrL @pizzanerdsoh

[Angela Huffman @AngelaSHuffman]

After a devastating cancer diagnosis at 36, I experienced the power of organic, regenerative, whole foods for healing. My new op-ed in The Hill highlights Farm Action's policy recs to the MAHA Commission to put farmers — not Big Ag or Big Food — at the center of our health.

[Mark Hyman, M.D. @drmarkhyman]

This is precisely the point I’ve been hammering for decades.

[Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab]

If you are against (or for) Fluoride in drinking water, I highly suggest you listen to this short clip from expert (and dentist) @doctorstaci you won’t find a more knowledgeable person on the history and topic of fluoride. @RobertKennedyJr @esaagar @ScienceMagazine @joerogan

[Farm Action @FarmActionUS]

This is exactly why we opposed the $10B in “economic assistance” that will favor the largest, wealthiest row crop operations that already receive billions in taxpayer subsidies while small farms growing food crops for their communities continue to struggle.

[Farm Action @FarmActionUS]

While Cal-Maine rakes in egregious profits, the farmers they contract with are trapped in predatory contracts, receiving about 26 cents per dozen eggs. Read the plight of one contract farmer in our latest blog: https://t.co/JIeBxAXxXz

[benji ballmer @bballmer]

@FarmActionUS @USDA This one hurts a LOT of people that were in the process of building a food infrastructure that would actually make us healthy...

[benji ballmer @bballmer]

@FarmActionUS @USDA If @DOGE is here to stay, I'm all for calling their attention to the proper places