It is 4:50 in the morning. At least twice a day now for weeks I have been checking the web to see whom President-elect Trump will choose to be the least important member of the Cabinet. Yesterday, I had an argument with the opinion editor of a major international newspaper. He said, “Wait, Joel, before […]
Earl Butz
Exclusive: Former USDA Secretary explains why he said there was not enough food to feed the American people
This 1986 unedited interview with Earl Butz [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Butz] took place nearly 10 years after he resigned in disgrace as Secretary of Agriculture for Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. It also took place after Butz, as a private citizen, had served a brief term in federal prison for income tax evasion. The interview contains Butz’s […]
The Politics of Food the book; its stories and the future
Not boring, as it should be, this site contains the entire book which took me 10 years to write. The book received good reviews. Also, you can listenn to an exclusive revealing interview never before made public with Earl Butz, the greatest Secretary of Agriculture since Henry Wallace. (Wallace served two terms as FDR’s vice […]