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...Barack Obama just nominated former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack as his agriculture secretary. What reform would you like to see in the USDA? I'd like a re-examination of the Farm Bill. I would like to see the Department of Agriculture clarify its message, so that it was saying eat more plants and fewer animals. I would love to hear that blared from the rooftops. I'd like to see stricter enforcement of antibiotic and hormone use in animals. In this country, you can't blame people for figuring out clever ways to make money, but if you charge...
...Vilsack won a seat in the Iowa State Senate, where he served two terms...
Vilsack was narrowly elected as governor of Iowa in 1998, making him the state’s first Democratic governor in 32 years. He won reelection by a wider margin in 2002, but chose not to run again...
Vilsack will be the fifth Secretary of Agriculture from the state of Iowa...
...Pennsylvania native, Vilsack graduated from Hamilton College and Albany Law School. He moved to his wife’s hometown of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, where he was elected mayor in 1987 after the city’s then-mayor was killed...