The Commissioner of Washington state's Department of Natural Resources, Hilary Franz, has been on a morale tour after losing staff to her vaccine mandate. She originally reported only a handful of people "chose" to leave last year but accommodations are only now being officially denied. Protestors joined me today outside her meeting with staff in the Northeast Region. I was fired from that region for refusing to comply with their demand that I stop interviewing people who they said "undermined" the vaccine mandate at DNR. Franz is a likely frontrunner for Washington's next Governor. As DNR Chief she heads the state's wildland firefighting force.
Carla the chicken joined us for spaghetti dinner and I was shocked by how much she liked it. I looked it up and apparently spaghetti is a chicken favorite. Carla is technically not allowed at the dinner table so don’t tell Lynn. 🤫
Trump’s executive order protecting glyphosate (which RFK Jr supports) is such a perfect example of how the American political system works, and one of the main reasons I became a farmer. Bayer (which acquired Monsanto in 2018) is getting sued into oblivion over claims glyphosate causes cancer, to the extent they’re paying out billions in losses and facing the real possibility of going bankrupt. Then all of a sudden, states like Georgia pass laws protecting glyphosate manufacturers from liability and the President passes a similar executive order in the name of national defense. Is this timing a coincidence? The big corporations in this country have direct influence on politicians in a way the average American can never compete - that is, unless we leave their system. We must go direct with farmers who use the kind of methods we want for our dinner. Even if we ban glyphosate, there are plenty of worse (yes, hard to believe!) chemicals waiting to take its place. There is no way out ...
