USDA Partners with Groups Linked to Terror to Bring Halal Food to Muslims

When there is more to Hamas and hummus than just similar-sounding names

BY JOE KAUFMAN

SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/usda-partners-with-groups-linked-to-terror-to-bring-halal-food-to-muslims/;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is the section of our government that is responsible for ensuring that our food is safe for American consumption. Yet, when it comes to food consumed by Muslim Americans, the USDA has been relying on groups associated with terrorism – the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) and Islamic Relief (IR) – for assistance and is even partnering with these groups. The following will explain why our government needs to break ties with these radical outfits and worry not just about food safety, but national security.

According to ICNA Relief, the social services division of ICNA, the group has been “working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture for the past two years to provide guidance on expanding halal food options through the emergency food assistance program (TEFAP)… In the future, we will be working to educate USDA suppliers, distributors, and wholesalers on the requirements of halal certification.”

The USDA states on its website, “For specific Halal information the following organizations may be helpful: ICNA Relief [and] Islamic Relief USA.”  The USDA website also lists Islamic Relief USA (IRUSA) as a USDA Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) “partner organization.” IRUSA is the US branch of IR. IR’s global headquarters, Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW), is based in Birmingham, England.

ICNA was founded as the American arm of the South Asian Islamist group Jamaat-e-Islami (JI). As such, ICNA has significant links to South Asian terrorists. For over three decades, ICNA has harbored former JI killing squad commander Ashrafuzzaman Khan, who, in November 2013, was sentenced to death (in absentia) for the murders of 18 people during the 1971 Bangladesh genocide. Khan has served as ICNA Vice President and ICNA-New York President. ICNA has as well collaborated with and promoted Falah-i-Insaniat Foundation (FIF), a banned front for Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the group behind the November 2008 Mumbai, India terror attacks.

ICNA has been linked to terrorist financing. In August 2006, ICNA was a top donor and partner to JI charity Al-Khidmat Foundation (AKF), at the same time AKF led a delegation to Damascus, Syria to hand deliver $100,000 to the then-global head of Hamas, Khaled Mashal, at his residence. ICNA continues to be a partner and donor to AKF. In October 2000, ICNA placed on its website links to the official sites of Hamas and Hezbollah as well as a directive issued by then-ICNA President Mohammad Yunus to provide “material support” to “fellow Chechnyan Muslims,” while providing a link to qoqaz.net (‘Jihad in Chechnya’), a financing/recruitment website for al-Qaeda.

ICNA has an Islamic outreach (dawah) division, WhyIslam. On the WhyIslam website, one finds an essay, ‘Gender Equity in Islam,’ sanctioning domestic violence. It states, “[W]omen on whose part you fear disloyalty… beat them.” Not long ago, the site featured a message board used by forum moderators to make posts deriding Jews and supporting Hamas and Israel’s destruction. One moderator, Marwan, discussing an Indian eatery called “Hitler’s cross,” vilely joked, “Nazi restaurant… I wonder if they have kosher meals.” Another said that Jews who speak against Israel… “deserve peace and life… The rest will one day end up in the Mediterranean sea.”

Like ICNA, Islamic Relief has several ties to overseas terrorism. As a result, IR has been banned by a number of nations. In May 2006, Israel labeled IR a front for Hamas. In November 2014, the UAE government designated IR as a terrorist group. Also in 2014, Britain’s HSBC bank cut ties with Islamic Relief over concerns about “terrorist financing.” And in October 2017, Bangladesh’s NGO Affairs Bureau banned Islamic Relief in fear the group would conduct terrorist recruitment of Myanmar refugees. In November 1999, it was reported that Islamic Relief had collected and sent over $6 million to Chechen rebels with ties to Al-Qaeda.

IRUSA board member and ex-Chairman, Khaled Lamada, has used social media to promote the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. According to the Middle East Forum, “Lamada has circulated text praising the ‘jihad’ of the ‘Mujahidin of Egypt’ for ‘causing the Jews many defeats’” and “republished claims on Facebook that praise Hamas for inflicting a ‘huge defeat’ against the ‘Zionist entity.’” In June 2015, Lamada tweeted that it is “absurd” to classify Hamas “as a terrorist organization.” Lamada has visited suicide bombing supporter Mazen Mokhtar at the hospital and praised anti-Semitic Egyptian cleric Salah Sultan as “the honor of the homeland.”

What could possibly be the legitimate reason for the USDA or any governmental organization to partner with either ICNA or Islamic Relief? In truth, there is none. These groups are dangerous to society and threats to national security. Their associations with terror and bigotry render any expertise that they may or may not have in Halal food moot.

Instead of embracing these groups, as the USDA has done, the agency should look to shut them down. There is no excuse to partner with either of these two radical entities, as a partnership implies an acceptance of the hatred and violence they are linked to.

Beila Rabinowitz, Director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.

USDA air dropping vaccines from helicopters across 13 states, using vaccine “bait” deemed HAZARDOUS if ingested~The USDA Is Practicing Crony Capitalism by the Billions~Plum Island resurfaces: Secret research programs run by the USDA, DoD, and DHS are engineering agricultural bioweapons to starve nations into collapse 

BY MIKE ADAMS

SEE: https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-09-20-usda-air-dropping-vaccines-from-helicopters-across-13-states.html;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

(Natural News) The USDA, like many federal agencies, is deeply invested in the business of extermination. For example, most people don’t realize that the USDA mass murders millions of birds every year through deliberate poisoning campaigns. Natural News has published the USDA’s list of bird extermination from 2009 (PDF), showing how the agency murdered over four million birds in 2009 alone.

That program is called “Bye Bye Blackbird,” and it’s just one of many mass extermination programs run by the USDA. Another program involves the USDA mass murdering foxes, coyotes, bears, mountain lions, bobcats, and river otters. As Natural News reported in 2018:

According to the latest report, the federal program last year killed 357 gray wolves; 69,041 adult coyotes, plus an unknown number of coyote pups in 393 destroyed dens; 624,845 red-winged blackbirds; 552 black bears; 319 mountain lions; 1,001 bobcats; 675 river otters, including 587 killed “unintentionally”; 3,827 foxes, plus an unknown number of fox pups in 128 dens; and 23,646 beavers.

Also in 2018, the USDA was caught murdering hundreds of kittens in incineration ovens as part of a medical experimentation operation. As NaturalNews reported in 2018:

…[T]he USDA has been experimenting on kittens by feeding them parasite-riddled raw meat for two or three weeks so their feces can be collected. Then they are killed via incineration. And at the end of the “study,” Bishops says, the USDA admitted that the baby animals were healthy.

Congressman Mike Bishop sounded off on the USDA’s kitten murder practice, saying:

I’m shocked and disturbed that for decades the USDA — the very organization charged with enforcing animal welfare laws — has been unnecessarily killing hundreds of kittens in expensive and inefficient lab experiments. Any government research program like this one that’s been funded since the Nixon administration needs to be put under the microscope, especially when it involves using kittens as disposable test tubes in harmful tests that most taxpayers oppose.

The USDA, in other words, slaughters millions of animals a year and runs cruel medical experiments on kittens (among other animals). This is the same USDA that conspires with pesticide manufacturers to poison the human food supply with synthetic chemicals, including herbicides like atrazine which are known “chemical castrators” that alter human hormone expression.

Now, this same agency is air-dropping edible “vaccines” across 13 states, claiming to be controlling raccoons and rabies. But the bait is so dangerous, it’s never supposed to be ingested (keep reading).

USDA uses a fleet of helicopters to mass poison the landscape with “rabies vaccines” disguised as food

According to the Associated Press via DailyPress.com, the USDA is now air-dropping “millions of packets of oral rabies vaccines” across 13 US states. Those states include:

  • Alabama
  • Maine
  • Pennsylvania
  • West Virginia
  • Virginia
  • Tennessee

The USDA claims these “rabies vaccines” are embedded in food bits that are currently flavored with fishmeal. This will, of course, encourage all sorts of wildlife to eat the vaccine traps, causing unknown consequences in wildlife animals that will obviously ingest the tainted treats. Domestic dogs and cats can also stumble upon the tainted food bits and ingest them, causing involuntary “vaccination” against rabies, which can kill pets. (Although rare, death is one of the side effects of rabies vaccination.)

Note carefully that the USDA is in the business of exterminating animals, so when they drop “bait” from helicopters, laced with potentially harmful or even deadly rabies vaccine ingredients, it’s not difficult to realize the real motivation of this program.

This isn’t the first time the US government has unleashed biological warfare specimens into the wild, either. Although “fact checkers” vehemently deny this accusation, many people believe the US government engineered and released Lyme Disease as a biological weapon. More recently, it is now exhaustively documented that the US Army helped engineer SARS-CoV-2 and then handed the bioweapon to China’s Wuhan labs for final gain-of-function enhancement. (Even mainstream medical journals such as The Lancet now admit the lab origins of covid are a likely explanation.) This turned out to be a global depopulation and infertility weapon which has unleashed unprecedented havoc across the world, enticing people to be injected with yet another biological weapon: The mRNA covid “vaccine” that’s killing human beings by the millions all over the world.

What the USDA does with blackbirds is the same thing the vaccine industry is doing to humans: It always seems to be about extermination and depopulation.

The vaccine bait being dropped across 13 states, it turns out, isn’t even safe to ingest.

Oral vaccine deemed “hazardous to health” if ingested, poses threat to humans and pets if touched

The USDA’s APHIS department (Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service) runs the oral rabies vaccine program, and it doesn’t even bother to claim these vaccines are safe. (See its Oral Rabies Vaccine and Bait Information page here.)

The Safety Data Sheet for the vaccine, manufactured by Merial, tells a larger story. Although these vaccine baits/traps are intended by the USDA to be orally consumed by animals, the Safety Data Sheet warns:

Potentially hazardous to health if any of the following should occur: Ingestion, parenteral inoculation, droplet or aerosol exposure of mucous membranes or if broken skin is exposed to infectious fluids or tissues.

In other words, the vaccine is “hazardous to health” if ingested. Yet ingestion is exactly what the USDA is achieving by coating this vaccine with fishmeal and dropping it across 13 states to be consumed by every kind of wild animal imaginable. The entire purpose of this delivery mechanism is to have the hazardous vaccines ingested.

That same warning sheet also says, “Localized skin lesions are possible” if exposed to this vaccine.

And even though these vaccine bait morsels are apparently tossed out of vehicles onto public roads, according to the USDA itself, the substances they contain are toxic to people. According to DailyPress.com, the USDA tosses these toxic vaccine bait products out of vehicles in America’s cities:

[They are] being dropped from planes in rural areas and from vehicles in urban and suburban areas.

People drive around the cities and toss these from vehicles, in other words. What could possibly go wrong?

These oral vaccines are not safe for people or animals, “All people should avoid contact”

The Safety Data Sheet explains more about the risks of coming into contact with these food bait vaccines:

– All people should avoid contact, but young children, pregnant women, individuals with immune deficiencies, or those on steroids should avoid contact with this vaccine.

Merely touching the vaccine food bait can also be risky, as the Safety Data Sheet warns, “Danger through skin absorption.”

In addition, even though the USDA is dropping these vaccine baits from helicopters, where many of them will wash into local waterways, the Safety Data Sheet specifically warns about how hazardous this product is to groundwater:

Do not allow undiluted products or large quantities of them to reach groundwater, watercourse, or sewage system.

Anyone who finds these vaccine food bait chunks on the ground is advised to dispose of them as follows: “Incinerate in EPA licensed Bio/Medical waste facility.”

Yet, they are flung far and wide from aircraft, helicopters, and vehicles, indiscriminately contaminating wildlife areas in 13 US states, no doubt causing widespread illness, suffering, and pollution among wildlife and natural ecosystems.

That’s the USDA in a nutshell: Poison, murder and kill wildlife by the millions, then claim to be “vaccinating” the world by distributing yet more poison across America’s cities. It sounds like the USDA, much like the FDA, functions as just another “captured agency” in the pocket of Big Pharma / Big Chemical, caring nothing about the health or safety of both animals and human beings.

For your own safety, if you happen to see bait-shaped chunks of food falling out of the sky, you might want to keep your distance. Or wear latex gloves to pick up the sample, place it in a sealed plastic bag, and don’t flush it into the sewage system. See if you can find an EPA-licensed biomedical waste facility for incineration, since that’s what you’re supposed to do with this, apparently.

It’s just another day of the government working to poison the world and kill more people and animals. What else is new?

Hear the full details on air-dropped vaccines (and many other topics) in today’s Situation Update podcast:

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The USDA Is Practicing Crony Capitalism by the Billions

BY CHRIS QUEEN

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/chris-queen/2022/09/21/the-usda-is-practicing-crony-capitalism-by-the-billions-n1631079;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

Last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its first list of grant recipients for the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities program. In typical big government fashion, this first round of 70 recipients — to the tune of a total of $2.8 billion — is the largest group of winners of largesse, with projects asking for $5 million to $100 million.

The federal government will announce the list of smaller grant winners from a pool of 450 applicants asking for $18 billion in taxpayer money. The USDA criteria for doling out funds to larger projects included the mitigation of greenhouse gases, but for the smaller projects, the program adds greater scrutiny for “Equity/Environmental Justice (EJ)/Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) Reach.” Of course.

White Oak Pastures in Bluffton, Ga., applied for a grant in conjunction with its own Center for Agricultural Resilience, but the USDA didn’t select White Oak to receive funds.

You might remember White Oak Pastures from when its owner, Will Harris, took on Bill Gates for the billionaire’s purchase of massive amounts of farmland. The ever-opinionated Harris explains his “sour grapes” with the USDA on the farm’s blog.

“As some of y’all know, we have been grazing our sheep underneath large utility-sized solar arrays for over two years,” Harris writes. “We see it as a win-win for farmers, energy companies, and the planet. We also see it as a way for underserved farmers to gain access to land without having to come up with a huge cash outlay.”

“We wanted to expand this practice and then offer classes to others to teach them to do it,” he continues. “I thought that it would be considered to be a great project.”

Related: American Farmer Puts Bill Gates on Notice

Alas, the grant wasn’t in the cards, but Harris pointed out some of the recipients of grants, and these names may raise your blood pressure. Among the Lead Partners and Major Partners who received federal money are the following corporations:

  • Pepsico
  • Cargill
  • JBS
  • Coca-Cola
  • John Deere
  • Microsoft
  • Butcher Box
  • Nestle-Purina
  • Walmart
  • Anheuser-Busch
  • Smithfield Foods
  • Blue Apron
  • ADM
  • Nutrein Ag Solutions
  • Target
  • Bayer
  • McDonalds
  • Mars
  • Unilever
  • Google
  • Campbell’s Soup

To be fair, there are individual farms, smaller businesses, and educational institutions that received grant money, but these corporations and other large companies have their hands in these projects.

Why do these massive, multi-national corporations need federal money for these projects? And why are the same leftists who complain about big companies making too much profit so eager to throw big government money at these same corporations? It must be because they’re producing projects that target climate change, aim for minority communities, and promote “equity.” (And as an aside, isn’t it odd how the environmental movement has sold out to the racial-grievance hucksters these days?)

Never one to hold back, Harris says exactly what we’re all thinking.

“Who on earth would be better qualified to develop environmental solutions than the multinational companies who were complicit in f-cking our climate up[?]” he concludes.

He has a point: we shouldn’t trust these corporations to do anything good for the environment. Nor should we trust the government to dole out money in a way that might actually be more equitable than trying to score political points.

The USDA is picking winners and losers — both in who benefits from the federal largesse and who ultimately could benefit from these projects. And for so much taxpayer money to go toward large companies rather than to the farms that are doing the work at the ground level is a shame. Because helping independent farmers might genuinely achieve “equity” and benefit the environment more than throwing billions of dollars at corporations.

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Plum Island resurfaces: Secret research programs run by the USDA, DoD, and DHS are engineering agricultural bioweapons to starve nations into collapse 

BY MIKE ADAMS

SEE: https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-09-21-plum-island-agricultural-bioweapons-usda-and-dod-secret-research.html;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

(Natural News) The US Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) has been actively involved in engineering biological weapons for decades. Long before Fauci and the NIH were funding gain-of-function bioweapons development with the People’s Liberation Army in Wuhan, China, the USDA ran a bioweapons facility on Plum Island that was tasked with researching agricultural weapons that could be used to attack and destroy the food supply of enemy nations. (Both Cuba and the former Soviet Union were considered likely targets.)

In a bombshell story published by Xinhua news agency in 2021, author, researcher, and journalism professor Karl Grossman alleges that Lyme Disease was one of the many bioweapons produced in this US government-funded laboratory originally staffed by Nazi scientists who were brought to the USA under Operation Paperclip, a program that saw the US government recruit former Nazi scientists to work in fields like rocketry (NASA), medicine and computing. From that story:

The “godfather” of the Plum Island laboratory was a Nazi bioweapon expert, Erich Traub, who was brought to the United States after the Second World War.

“During WWII, Traub ran a Nazi secret biological warfare laboratory in the Baltic on an island called Riems, with a mission to poison cattle in the Soviet Union. Also, Traub had some familiarity with the New York area before WWII. He was also involved in Nazi activities on the Long Island,” Grossman noted.

“There was a military base on the island at that time for over 50 years, which was called Fort Terry. Thus this notion was to make this laboratory to do biological warfare,” he said, noting the lab was later taken over by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

This bioweapons laboratory facility, launched by Nazi scientists and later handed over to the USDA, was involved in agricultural bioweapons that could be used to attack the Soviet Union and other nations:

“In 1993, an investigative reporter for Newsday, John McDonald, was able to obtain documents including a document which was reprinted on the front page of Newsday,” he said.

“This document said the mission of Plum Island would in fact develop biological warfare weaponry that would be used to poison cattle and other livestock in the former Soviet Union,” he added.

Grossman goes on to reveal that a USDA tour guide admitted to him that the Plum Island facility was, indeed, involved in biological warfare research but the agency claimed it was “defensive” research. That’s the same excuse currently used by Fauci and the NIH when it comes to funding SARS-CoV-2 gain-of-function research in Wuhan.

A 2005 GAO report confirms collusion between DHS and USDA on pathogens that can be transformed into agricultural bioweapons

In his interview, Grossman cites a 2005 GAO report that he explains makes reference to pathogens that can be turned into agricultural bioweapons. We have confirmed the existence of this report on the GAO.gov website (remarkably, it hasn’t been scrubbed yet).

The report is entitled, “Plum Island Animal Disease Center: DHS and USDA Are Successfully Coordinating Current Work, but Long-Term Plans Are Being Assessed.”

The document is indexed as “GAO-06-132” and can be found at this link:

https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-06-132

The full text of this research document, available at this link on the GAO’s servers, confirms all the following:

  • The USDA ran the Plum Island bioweapons research facility until June of 2003.
  • At that time, operations were transferred to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), confirming its research had national security implications.
  • Currently, the USDA and DHS collaborate on bioweapons research at the facility, under the cover story of studying “foreign animal diseases.”
  • The DHS funds all the operations there. From the GAO report: “DHS is now responsible for all of the costs associated with operating and maintaining Plum Island.”
  • DHS was working in the early 2000s to expand the facility to handle “higher biosecurity” threats. Specifically, they sought to expand the Plum Island facility to, “enable the study of other highly contagious viruses in large animals, such as Nipah virus, which affects swine and can also be fatal to humans.”
    • Rift Valley fever was also being researched at the Plum Island facility. From the report: “Research conducted outside of Plum Island on Nipah virus and Rift Valley fever is very limited.”
    • The USDA, DHS, and GAO were all aware that Nipah virus and Rift Valley fever could be deployed against human populations and modern economies to achieve significant economic and food supply disruptions. From the report: “Nipah virus and Rift Valley fever… which affect both humans and livestock, as warranting greater attention because an outbreak could result in economic disruption or interfere with trade.”

    Just as Fauci used the NIAID and “defensive research” as a cover story for the gain-of-function development of a covid bioweapon that was unleashed upon America (followed by the vaccine bioweapon which is a far more aggressive infertility and depopulation attack), we believe the USDA used the “foreign animal diseases” storyline as a cover for its pursuit of deadly agricultural biological weapons that could be used to devastate a nation’s food supply. In the case of Lyme Disease, such a weapon could even attack humans and inject them with toxic pathogens. 

The USDA now appears to be unleashing biological weapons on America

As you ponder this true history about the USDA, remember that the same agency is right now using a fleet of helicopters to carpet bomb 13 US states with toxic “rabies vaccine” food bait. It’s made with a vaccine that’s listed as “hazardous to health” if “ingested,” indicating that this is actually a USDA-promoted bioweapon being deployed against the United States rather than the old Soviet Union.

More likely, the USDA is spreading rabies-like bioweapons across the United States right now, using a fleet of helicopters and vehicles to toss these “vaccines” onto roadways, including those in urban areas (which makes no sense since there’s virtually no wildlife in urban areas).

In our coverage from yesterday, we documented how these so-called “oral rabies vaccines” is listed as “Potentially hazardous to health if ingested.” You can see it listed right on the sheet at this link from the manufacturer’s website.

That same sheet says quite plainly, “All people should avoid contact” with this so-called rabies vaccine, yet it is being indiscriminately thrown onto roadways and wildlife areas across 13 US states. This DailyPress.com article confirms that these toxic bait packets are being tossed from vehicles in urban areas, meaning the USDA is quite literally hiring people to drive around America’s cities and dump toxic rabies poison on America’s streets. This sounds like something they might have once done to the Soviet Union as a bioweapons attack, but now they’re doing it in America.

Yet we are supposed to believe that the USDA cares so much about raccoons that they would hire fleets of helicopters and vehicles just to keep those raccoons safe from a pathogen. 

This is the same agency that approves of genetically modified crops and deadly chemical pesticides and herbicides that now saturate the US food supply. Based on its history and actions, the USDA should be called the “United States Death Agency.”

Thanks to COVID fraud and deception, the institutions of “science” and infectious disease have proven they cannot be trusted

The huge takeaway from all this is that the covid plandemic has exhaustively demonstrated how so-called science-based institutions can never be trusted to tell the truth about the real motivations behind their infectious disease research. Any time they claim to be doing “defensive” research into biological weapons or deadly pathogens, they’re actually conducting offensive research in conjunction with the DoD or DHS.

Hence the entire existence of Pentagon-funded bioweapons facilities in Ukraine. And Africa, too.

Remember, every time Fauci told us he wasn’t approving funding for gain-of-function research about covid, he was lying. When the USDA says they are researching defensive solutions for biological threats to livestock, they are lying, too.

The USDA is the same agency that incinerated kittens in ovens after conducting cruel research on them. We covered that story in 2018, and the USDA never denied carrying out these activities. Do you trust the ethics and morality of a government agency that incinerates kittens in ovens?

The USDA, much like the NIH, NIAID, CDC, and FDA, is in the business of harming humanity by developing and deploying biological weapons through multiple vectors, including food, wildlife, genetic engineering, and vaccines. No federal agency combines so many horrors under one roof, nor does any other agency so perfectly align with the Luciferian agendas of mass suffering and death. See USDAwatch.com for more news coverage of the USDA’s mass poisoning of America.

Get the rest of this mind-blowing true story in today’s Situation Update podcast:

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Biden’s USDA pushes transgender agenda or no school lunches

USDA: Biden Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack

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HERE'S THE DEAL; TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT; YOU HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE?

SUPPORT GENDER IDENTITY OR LOSE FUNDING FOR SCHOOL LUNCHES

Forces schools to let boys use girls’ bathrooms or lose federal lunch funding

SEE: https://www.fns.usda.gov/news-item/usda-0100.22

USDA leverages School Lunches

Vilsack to Deliver Address Announcing USDA Framework to Transform the Food System

USDA is announcing details of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s framework to transform the nation’s food system. The address will underscore USDA’s commitment under the Biden-Harris Administration to increase competition, bolster access to healthy, affordable food, ensure growers and workers receive a greater share of the food dollar and advance equity as well as climate resilience and mitigation.

President Joe Biden's USDA is now saying schools that receive Food and Nutrition Service funding will have to update their non-discrimination policies to include gender identity or lose funding for school lunches. One America's Stella Escobedo spoke about this issue with Deputy Director of Investigation with America First Legal, John Zadrozny.

Biden Starves Poor Kids to Push Trans Agenda

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SEE ALSO:

https://www.ammoland.com/2022/06/usda-using-tax-dollars-to-pressure-employees-on-citizen-disarmament

White Farmers Sue USDA Over Race-based Loan Forgiveness

White Farmers Sue USDA Over Race-based Loan Forgiveness

BY R. CORT KIRKWOOD

SEE: https://thenewamerican.com/white-farmers-sue-usda-over-race-based-loan-forgiveness;

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational & research purposes:

Five white farmers have sued the Biden administration because it plans to administer an anti-white, openly discriminatory loan-forgiveness program.

The lawsuit argues that the U.S. Department of Agriculture and its Farm Service Agency (FSA), which lends money to farmers and ranchers, are discriminating against white farmers in offering debt forgiveness via the recently passed, $2 trillion American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. Only minorities can apply, the FSA openly says, because it must help repair the damage from years of “systemic discrimination” in lending.

In other words, whites need not apply.

The Program

FSA chief Zach Ducheneaux explained the racially discriminatory policy at USDA websites.

“USDA recognizes that socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers have faced systemic discrimination with cumulative effects that have, among other consequences, led to a substantial loss in the number of socially disadvantaged producers, reduced the amount of farmland they control, and contributed to a cycle of debt that was exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic,” he wrote on March 26:

During the pandemic, socially disadvantaged communities saw a disproportionate amount of COVID-19 infection rates, loss of property, hospitalizations, death, and economic hurt.

To address these systemic challenges, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 provides historic debt relief to socially disadvantaged producers including Black/African American, American Indian or Alaskan native, Hispanic or Latino, and Asian American or Pacific Islander.

On April 16, he explained that the USDA ARPA will “pay up to 120% of loan balances, as of January 1, 2021” for FSA loans. “If you are a Black, Native American/Alaskan Native, Asian American or Pacific Islander, or are of Hispanic/Latino ethnicity, with one of the loans listed above, you are eligible for the loan payment.”

Citing testimony from Agriculture Secretary Thomas Vilsach, the lawsuit says the agency will forgive up to 15,000 loans and more than $4 billion debt for “non-white farmers.”

The plaintiffs are Adam P. Faust and Christopher C. Baird of Wisconsin, Jonathan P. Stevens of Minnesota, Jay T. Slaba of South Dakota, and Joseph W. Schmitz of Ohio. Each is a farmer, the lawsuit avers, who would “otherwise be eligible for the loan forgiveness provisions of Section 1005 of ARPA, except that he is white.”

“In March 2021, the United States retreated from the principle of equality under the law by enacting a race-based loan-forgiveness program” in ARPA, the lawsuit argues, because it excludes whites. 

It’s Illegal

Such discrimination is illegal unless the defendants, Ducheneaux and Vilsack, can “prove that its discriminatory benefit is narrowly tailored and serves a compelling government interest,” the lawsuit argues:

While Defendants’ public statements about ARPA describe their generalized goal of ending “systemic racism,” such broad goals do not override the constitutional ban on race discrimination. In fact, the Supreme Court has “rejected the interest in remedying societal discrimination because it had no logical stopping point.… In short, “[t]he way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”

Previous case law and the U.S. Constitution, the lawsuit argues, ban the open racial discrimination the program involves. 

“The liberty protected by the Fifth Amendment’s Due Process Clause contains within it the prohibition against denying to any person the equal protection of the laws,” the lawsuit avers. “The racial classifications under Section 1005 of ARPA are unconstitutional because they violate the Equal Protection guarantee in the United States Constitution.”

Nor do they serve a compelling government interest, the lawsuit argues.

The lawsuit asks the court to declare the program unconstitutional and stop the USDA from “applying racial classifications when determining eligibility” for the programs.

The lawsuit has not deterred the USDA, the Green Bay Press Gazette reported. While the agency reviews the complaint with the Justice Department, it will continue to implement the program, a spokesman said.

“There should absolutely be no federal dollars going anywhere just based on race,” Faust told the newspaper. “The economic impact from COVID-19 didn’t hurt any race more than another as far as agriculture goes.”