The Feb. 2 Senate Agriculture Committee hearing on the nomination of Tom Vilsack for Agriculture Secretary, became a platform for Vilsack to call for shifting U.S. agriculture from traditional concerns for farming and food, to instead, climate change. The hearing had exchanges on carbon markets, carbon credits, greenhouse gases. Vilsack pledged he would work with farmers towards a Net Zero emissions goal for the U.S.
Vilsack was Agriculture Secretary for eight years under President Barack Obama, and afterward took a high-salary job pushing U.S. dairy exports. He is known for peddling whatever policies he gets paid to push.
