Massie: Empower Small Farmers & Legalize Local Food Production

Former president Donald Trump’s coalition building efforts are giving a platform to ideas about government reform that doesn’t simply grow the existing system.

Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) recently highlighted an interview with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate Nicole Shanahan in which she pushed back against VP Kamala Harris’s calls to fight rising food prices with price caps and anti-gouging policies.

Shanahan told Chris Cuomo on News Nation that she has spent the last year traveling the nation, listening to the people and learning where they’re hurting. In particular, Shanahan said farmers are terribly underrepresented and that Kamala Harris’s promotion of capping food prices would only hurt those farmers worse.

Ag Secretary?🤔

Imagine the health & economic benefits our country would enjoy if we’d just empower small farmers and legalize local food distribution!

Current rules protect corporate monopolies and drive us toward chemically laden nutrient deficient processed foods. https://t.co/pvGx0bNrTT

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) August 27, 2024

Shanahan complained that she has taken the message of these farmer to the Democratic Party for years and no one would listen.

She said her decision to leave the Democratic Party came after years of trying everything within her power to be heard and still being ignored.

By contrast, Shanahan said, Trump is showing a willingness to listen to and address the real issues which are affecting the average American.

On the issue of reducing food costs, Shanahan said Trump is surrounding himself with people who can help stimulate the farm economy in the right way and she specifically suggests Rep. Massie to head up the United States Department of Agriculture.

Massie shared Shanahan’s tweet and jokingly suggested he’d be a good choice for Secretary of Agriculture in a second Trump administration.

The Kentucky Congressman has been a leading voice in calling for food freedom and has proposed an Interstate Milk Freedom Act as as well as a Constitutional Food Freedom Amendment.

Massie warns that the current rules favor corporate monopolies and what he calls, “chemically laden, nutrient deficient, processed foods.”