Vernon Lyman Kellogg Quotes
… in May, 1917, wheat was selling in Chicago at $3.25 a bushel and the consumer was paying for his bread on that basis, although the official estimate of the Department of Agriculture of the average price actually received by the farmer for his crop was but $1.44 a bushel.
Herbert Hoover was then the Food Administrator and in part with his assistance, Congress passed The Food Control Law August, 1917 which contained a provision, guaranteeing a wheat price to the farmer of two dollars a bushel. This was the beginning of Agricultural Subsidies and Corporate welfare for the large farm companies. It was passed under the Democratic Wilson Administration but Republican Herbert Hoover was one of the major supporters.
Vernon Lyman Kellogg, 1867-1937, Writer, Entomologist, Evolutionary Biologist, Herbert Hoover: The Man and His Work
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Actually, the Agriculture Department was one of Lincoln’s greatest achievements. The subsidies and corporate welfare came much later. The biggest benefits were the land grant collages where agricultural research improved the yields and productivity and the Agricultural Extension provided training and technical assistance to American farmers making the United States the most efficient agricultural producer in the world. The subsidies and corporate welfare had and has nothing to do with the positive initiatives that Lincoln envisioned.
She advocates cutting out more of the middle men in the food chain and having the farmer earn more money. One difficulty with her idea is that the vast majority of farming today is done by large corporations who are already making a good deal of money and consumer groups do not want to further enrich these corporations at the expense of the consumer. However by buying directly from the small farmer who grows particularly good food, she can accomplish the objective on a small scale.
Referring to the economic effects of the drought of 1988:
This Hadith together with the Prophet’s probation on interest appears to preclude a capitalistic economic structure. However, Muslim institutions have been very creative in interpreting these admonitions. Some Muslims give this a modern interpretation which prohibits price gouging but not fair profit. Regardless, it has always been interpreted to apply only to business transactions between Muslims. Profit can be made on trading and commerce with non-Muslims, and Muslim traders have always spanned the globe.
Actually, Kerry was incorrect, but he had a point, There are about 110,000 employees of the U. S. Department of Agriculture and every state has their own department of Agriculture with employees. There are about 2 million farms in America. So there is a government agriculture employee for about every 15 farms—a ratio that no other occupation shares.
Vernon Lyman Kellogg was an American entomologist, evolutionary biologist, and science administrator. His father was Lyman Beecher Kellogg, first president of the Kansas State Normal School (now known as Emporia State University), and former Kansas Attorney General. In 1908, Kellogg married Charlotte Hoffman and the two welcomed their only child, Jean Kellogg Dickie, in 1910.
