10,000 Farmers & Ranchers Support A Green New Deal: Renewable Fridays

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Take that, Denialists. What you thought was our Red state politics just changed while you weren't looking. From Daily Kos member Mokurai, Sept. 20, 2019.

>' Gizmodo: Farmers and Ranchers Just Came Together to Support the Green New Deal.'

A national coalition of some 10,000 farmers and ranchers have come together to support a Green New Deal. Some members came together outside the Capitol on Wednesday to announce the launch of Farmers and Ranchers for a Green New Deal. The group will lobby Congress, educate consumers, and work with communities to ensure that the transition away from fossil fuels and toward a green economy covers their food and nutritional needs.

This represents a major step in building rural support for the Green New Deal. The GOP likes to paint the Green New Deal as liberal lunacy, but if more people in the Midwest or more traditionally Republican states can get on board, well, the GOP may finally STFU. Moreover, the agriculture sector make up 9 percent of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions so it will have to be part of any climate solution.

“Now is the time for solutions, not supporting the status quo,” Sherri Dugger, coalition co-chair and Indiana-based farmer, said during the announcement. “I care about the climate. I care about food security. I care about the world and what we’re leaving behind for our children.”



10,000 farmers & ranchers want the Green New Deal. Which presidential candidate will be first to notice?

I'm going to let this story speak for itself while I chortle quietly in the corner. Of course, it's too soon for polling on this. And there is too much here to unpack in a single Diary. There will, of course, be other Fridays.

Well, I am going to point out that this story is not in the MSM. HuffPo is as close as we have come so far. Discuss.

> Huffington Post: 10,000 Farmers And Ranchers Endorse Green New Deal In Letter To Congress...READ MORE..

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/9/20/1886664/-Renewable-Friday-Farmers-and-Ranchers-for-a-Green-New-Deal?utm_campaign=recent

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1. U.S. Ag sector is just 9%???????? of U.S. GHG emissions? I think it is a lot higher

Here's one that says 16% (although it includes the whole chain from farm to ultimate consumer, including transportation, food processors, grocery store and restaurant)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306919217310552

I'm also sure I've seen a lot of yammering about meat production / consumption that is higher than 9%.