Agriculture
RESSON – U.S. Rep. Glenn "G.T." Thompson issued three challenges during the third annual Agriculture Summit at Mount Aloysius College on Monday.
Thompson, the House Committee on Agriculture's GOP leader, called upon schools to establish or expand agriculture programs and asked land grant universities to continue getting the word out about what farmers, ranchers and foresters do to help the environment and the climate.
He then emphasized the role "all of us" could play.
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U.S. Rep. Glenn Thompson, through a bill of which he is the primary sponsor, hopes to close the "digital divide" between rural and urban America.
He said the legislation - Broadband for Rural America - would close that divide by encouraging broadband development.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Top Congressional Republicans are proposing solutions to climate change. Their ambitious platform suggests natural changes addressing food, farming, and forestry, while protecting the economy.
"We know the climate changes," said Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-Pa.), the top Republican on the House Agriculture Committee. "That debate is over."
Now that he's the top Republican on the House Agriculture Committee, U.S. Rep. Glenn "G.T." Thompson is continuing to work on getting whole milk back into schools.
"I think most folks in Washington, including (Ag Secretary) Tom Vilsack, know my goal of restoring whole milk in our school districts," Thompson said during an April 6 meeting with 97 Milk, a whole milk advocacy group, at the Durlach-Mt. Airy Fire Co.
CLARION - U.S. Rep. Glenn Thompson regards President Joe Biden's $2 trillion federal infrastructure and jobs package as "toxic."
Thompson, R-15th District, said the proposal, which the president unveiled last week during a stop in Pittsburgh, is "nothing but higher taxes," contains "a lot of the Green New Deal" and it is "climate change on steroids."
In a recent episode of the popular YouTube show Louder With Crowder, host Steven Crowder dedicates a segment of his show to discussing the $5 billion allocated for black farmers in the American Rescue Act. Though in a self-proclaimed comedy show, the segment wasn't funny; it was insensitive, ignorant, and in poor taste.
The segment begins with a news story describing the discrimination faced by farmers of color through government agricultural programs. Overheard in the background, one of Crowder's co-hosts can be heard asking, "Do they got receipts on that?"
U.S. Rep. Glenn "G.T." Thompson fears a generation of milk drinkers may have been lost due to a decade-old federal policy that prohibits whole milk being served to students in schools.
That leaves only skim and 1% milk, which, the congressman realizes, many children likely consider less flavorful. Therefore, they get turned off to milk.