19th century origins of the USDA (greatest, Lincoln, historical, political)

[Clarallel]

Michael Lewis wrote a great overview of the Department of Agriculture, which oversees much more than most people realize. And there was this interesting fact:


In the middle of the Civil War, Lincoln had decided it was time to make U.S. agriculture more efficient: each person not needed on the farm was another person freed up to do something else. That’s why the Department of Agriculture was created in the first place, as a vast science lab.






The Campaign Against the USDA
With key U.S.D.A. programs—from food stamps to meat inspection, to grants and loans for rural development, to school lunches—under siege, the agency’s greatest problem is that even the people it helps most don’t know what it does.


https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017...administration

[Dd714]

If you want to discuss the historical aspect of the USDA, do it. But you don't have to add the political agenda crap/link at the end. That's not history nor do we appreciate the refugees from the P&C forum introducing there agenda here.

[mensaguy]

Originally Posted by Dd714

If you want to discuss the historical aspect of the USDA, do it. But you don't have to add the political agenda crap/link at the end. That's not history nor do we appreciate the refugees from the P&C forum introducing there agenda here.

A 2017 article from Vanity Fair is not History.