Author: Joel Salatin
September 13, 2025
Joel Salatin's speech delivered at the Brownstone conference held on the Salatin family farm, Polyface Farms in Virginia. It is a call to fight for food freedom and presents a plan for real change.
(…) I called it the "Food Emancipation Proclamation."
The key term of our times is "liberation." How many people do we meet who say: "We want to free ourselves from government schooling. We don't want to feel dependent on such an education system. As a result, we are experiencing a wave of homeschooling. We don't want to be dependent on the healthcare system. Thus, the wave of healers is rising, many of whom speak even at our conference. Nowadays, we all want our own healer. We all worry about finances. Where does our money go? Therefore, retirement plans are being privatized, we are gaining knowledge. The synonyms for investing are words like cultivating, repairing, building. If you know how to cultivate, build, and repair, or live next to people who do, that is a better school of investing than any retirement plan. That is also liberation. Entertainment. Fun. Many people are now giving up entertainment and investing their money in information. They prefer to come to Polyface for the weekend than to swim in the Caribbean, because the time spent here is more valuable to them.
Food. The food we produce every day is gaining momentum and - thanks to the efforts of RFK Jr. and MAHA - we are becoming aware of how inauthentic and unacceptable our food supply is. How many of us knew five months ago that 15 billion dollars from the SNAP program1goes annually to Coca-Cola? I didn’t know that. Most of us didn’t know, but now it is a topic of national discussion. Thus, we see a desire to separate from the system at many levels.
I will focus here on food because that is what I know most about.
Thirty years ago, most visitors to our farm were leftist environmentalists, nature lovers, liberals, oddballs. Today, 80% of our guests are conservatives, believers, right-wingers, freedom-loving people. Their plans and dreams are changing from a desire: "Oh, government, solve all my problems" to: "I want independence and responsibility." This is what household activity regarding food looks like today.
We do not trust Procter and Gamble; we do not trust Nestle; we do not trust Hershey.
When tobacco companies were shut down, all the laboratory and scientific knowledge of that sector was taken over by large food companies. Since then, experts from the tobacco industry have been working on our food, and that’s why we now have, what is it, 70,000 food additives whose names cannot be pronounced. The European Union has only 400, so all this ultraprocessed food issue has fallen on us.
I want to know what is in the pantry. I want to know what goes on my children's plates. So let’s think about children from farms. We know we build the immune system by eating dirt, playing in the dirt, getting our nails dirty. Finland, the world leader in scientific research on the immunity of children from farms, states that children who eat a little dirt when they are toddlers have a much stronger immune system than their city cousins who live in a sterile environment. So if someone is looking for a million-dollar business idea, it may sound funny, but I’m completely serious. We need containers filled with compost and dirt from farms so that city people can strengthen their immune systems and sense of self-worth.
We have a problem with teenage suicides.
This is a serious issue. How do you develop a sense of self-worth in a child? I am not a psychologist, but I know this; I know how to develop a sense of self-worth in a farm child. It happens when they "successfully complete meaningful tasks," every word is important here. You do not gain self-worth by being the best player in Angry Birds.2. You gain it by knowing how to gut a chicken; how to can green beans, grow corn, tomatoes, gather chicken eggs, and similar tasks.
Self-worth comes from living on a farm where children can do chores and develop harmony in their workplace. You sit together and figure out how to drive in that post? How to fix the fence? How to bring in the cows when they scatter? Those kinds of things. There is no better place for a child's development than a farm. Parents see this, and seeing dysfunction among young people from the city, they are increasingly treating farms as a way to develop the family. Parents are increasingly fleeing from cities to the countryside out of fear of urban sector degeneration.
Fear makes us flee. Faith makes us stay.
You can't run away forever. Fear can be a good thing if a lion is chasing you; then fear is good. You must run; however, you can't run indefinitely. You have to stop somewhere. And that's where people stop at farms. So how do you free yourself from the industrial agricultural and food complex? Grow your own or buy outside the system.
Following this path, we will quickly realize that the possibility of changing the way food is produced is heavily regulated. Thus, we have very little choice. If any of you would come up to me and say, "Hey, Joel, that chicken was really great yesterday. Could you sell me one of those grilled chicken halves?" I can't legally sell it to you because it's a cooked product and can only come from a controlled, government-sanctioned kitchen. If you offered me, "Joel, I want to buy a can of your homemade tomato soup," I couldn't sell it to you. The current system allows for market availability only of products from the industry.
If you ever hear a recall notice for a food product, especially when the media mentions the brand of its producer, it turns out that only 25 companies, 25 brands – one similar to the other, from the same group – are being recalled. People walk into Walmart and say, "How come we have no food choice?" Just look at all those numerous signs, brands, those colorful labels! Well, they are all industrial. So is that what we want? Is that what the current society and culture desire? No! Buyers want affordable, unprocessed, local food. But you can't get it at the supermarket.
Older farmers would like to retire, to step back from farming. This is a serious problem for them. We hear about farm succession everywhere. Young people do not want to take over these farms. Even if they want to take over a farm, they are looking for another way to enter the food market.
In the past 80 years, the share of farmers in retail sales revenue has dropped from 50% to 8%. This means that we have effectively implemented a new agricultural policy. If farmers worked for almost nothing or even received no pay, the price of food wouldn't change much. Traditional agriculture accounts for only 8%; 92% of the money spent on food goes to intermediaries involved in processing, marketing, and distribution. A significant part of this change arises from the need for convenience in shopping.
Error
When I started giving interviews to the media 30 years ago and we gained some popularity, I asked people: what do you think the food system of the future will look like? Michelle Obama had a garden at the White House; she knew the producers of her food. We were all thrilled. We thought that in a few years, everyone would be cooking in their kitchens. We would prepare our meals, buy whole foods, zucchinis, and tomatoes, and also can or preserve them and practice the home culinary arts. And that was my biggest mistake: I didn't notice the obstacles.Instead of a pastoral imagewe would get microwaveable cakes and bread or other ultra-processed foods. It seems that the convenience of Lunchables3will remain with us permanently. It was only a few months later that I had the epiphany: realizing that I must finally stop rambling about home culinary arts. That is already the past. About 75% of all food consumed by Americans is ready-made food. In practice, 1/3 of this is consumed in cars. We are so far removed from our ecological womb. And when you start losing touch with the knowledge of generations and traditions, you become paranoid. It's not just that you can't cook from scratch, but that you're afraid to cook from scratch.
Convenience will remain with us permanently, and worse, it is controlled by the industrial food system, by the system of ultra-processed food producers. These are dishes that cannot be prepared in a kitchen and can only be made in a laboratory. Is there any reason for our ready-made food to contain monosodium glutamate, red dye No. 29, or any other of the 70,000 additives added to food for stabilization and to give bland, factory food flavor?
"Farmers therefore need access to money from retail trade. Farmers desperately need to increase our 8 percent share to a higher level and enter the realm of intermediary profits, that is, create a real way for themselves to earn a living as farmers. However, the processing that increases this value is regulated by production scale regulations. Large companies find it much easier to comply with government regulations than small ones. My wife, Teresa, and I co-own a small federally inspected slaughterhouse in Harrisonburg. What Tyson Foods does for one hundred dollars costs us five hundred dollars. And then people say, 'Well, you are elitist, your prices are exorbitant.' That's not true! This is because we have exactly the same gates, plans, bathrooms, or offices for government inspectors checking each of our one hundred animals weekly, as the Tyson Foods corporation does, where inspectors check five thousand animals daily. This 'identical' approach is inherently unfair, dishonest, and unnecessary. This only raises the cost of our market entry."
"To be able to offer you chicken stew, and to be able to ask how you liked yesterday's dish, your response of: Yes! Yes! I'd love to! is not enough! To offer you chicken stew, I must have a controlled kitchen, a safety plan, a HHACP system,""4", analyses, hazards, critical plans, control points, etc. This control does not have any templates; if you download a control service template from the website, it will automatically be rejected. I must have a licensed bathroom, not a compost toilet, and it doesn't matter that our kitchen is one hundred meters from two bathrooms in our home and two in our mother's house. This one must be on site, with a licensed drain field for the bathroom and a certified cold chain with a thermometer 24/7 and a computer microchip reading."
"All this is to provide you with chicken stew. So when we started doing this, we asked if we could make chicken stews because our customers love Polyface chicken stew, they heat it and eat it, pack it in cardboard boxes, freeze it, with no monosodium glutamate, no vaccines, no antibiotics, no GMOs. They are just delicious. As it happens, I love chicken stew myself. So when the inspector came and informed me of all the requirements I must meet, I said, 'Wait a minute, wait a minute. I was just in Charlottesville and saw a food truck""5" selling chicken stew. It does not have a licensed drainage field, none of those things.' He replied to me: 'Unfortunately, you are right.' This is one of the legal loopholes we are trying to eliminate. So if you see bathrooms connected to the back of food trucks, you will know where they came from."
"Wait a minute! - I exclaimed - so are you saying that a stationary kitchen can be placed on a chassis?" He replied: "Of course!" But there is a problem. A food truck can only sell from the food truck. Products cannot be shipped. They cannot be taken off the farm and sold. So again you are limited, only to the food truck window."
"They have you in their sights!"
"Nevertheless, in the last few years, many alternative solutions have emerged that farmers are using. Many of these solutions serve farmers well. One of them is a private membership association, PMA. Many of you are familiar with it. It was founded in 1965 after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed when country clubs for whites in Georgia did not want black members attending their clubs. They tried to find a way around the Civil Rights Act and it was determined to simply create a private, non-public association; thus PMA was born. Some clever people said, 'Let's do the same regarding food regulations and create a non-public transaction structure.' And they do."
"Currently, some of them have been successful, others are yet to be discovered, and others can be read about. For example, Amos Miller from Pennsylvania. A cease and desist order was issued in Dayton. There is also one ban in Virginia - next Monday, September 22, we are going to court in Virginia regarding one of them. Essentially, someone who creates a private membership association in America paints a large target on their back; they are showing the middle finger to big government agencies, and they do not like that. They really do not like it. That is why private membership associations are a sensitive issue."
Another issue, this time in the dairy industry, is herd share participation. Many of you are familiar with the concept of herd share. Selling raw milk in Virginia is illegal, but we can have a herd share in a dairy farm located nearby; the same one that provides the chocolate milk available in stores. If you haven't tried chocolate milk yet, you must because it's really good, through the herd share. Do you understand? Next month, I'm going to North Carolina for a rally where they are trying to ban herd shares in North Carolina. By the way, this is an initiative by Republicans who are linked to big business.
The problem with herd share participation is that it is cumbersome. When you're not home, you still receive a gallon of milk each week. Without you, your family won't drink a gallon of milk a week. Conversely, if we have guests, we can't get an extra gallon to feed them as well. So it's very, very inconvenient.6Another issue is animal feed. Florida currently leads the states with the most liberal regulations regarding animal feed. Essentially in Florida, almost anything can be registered as animal feed. You just need a $25 licensing fee, and you can sell it all as "animal feed," meaning "not suitable for human consumption." We are currently working hard on a loophole model for everyone to resolve this issue and forget about it. When there are 10, 30, 40, and 50 of these loopholes, it's no longer acceptable. So we are trying to close this loophole, and I think we will succeed.
Kolejną kwestią jest karma dla zwierząt. Floryda przoduje obecnie wśród stanów pod względem najbardziej liberalnych przepisów dotyczących karmy dla zwierząt. Zasadniczo w stanie Floryda, prawie wszystko można zarejestrować jako karmę dla zwierząt. Wystarczy opłata licencyjna w wysokości 25 dolarów i można to wszystko sprzedawać to jako „karmę dla zwierząt”, czyli „nie nadającą się do spożycia przez ludzi”. Obecnie pracujemy energicznie nad jednym modelem obejścia prawa dla każdego, żeby załatwić tę sprawę i zapomnieć o niej. Kiedy bowiem tych obejść jest 10, 30, 40 i 50, to już nie jest to akceptowalne. Próbujemy więc zamknąć tę lukę i myślę, że nam się to uda.
Another example is the Internet, where you can sell courses, such as butchery or cheesemaking, and give away training materials with them. So there are people selling butchery courses, and included in the price for the online butchery course is free meat worth $200. Well, I process the meat and give it away to students. You can legally distribute these products. However, such meat cannot enter commercial circulation; even though buyers want to opt out of Walmart, and farmers want to engage in retail for their community. These are solutions that good lawyers invest in, clever people trying to navigate this obstacle to provide you with chicken stew.
MAHA is still the same.
I am concerned that the current MAHA program7does not address any of these issues. The existing MAHA program involves transferring funds from commodity grants to farmers who are trying to switch to organic crops. They take money from one pool and throw it into another. They do these things perfectly. No change for the better.
Another important issue is banning the use of Topsin. And also industrial crops using glyphosate. We want such bans. Another issue is transferring SNAP funds from Coca-Cola to Whole Foods. Now only people buying products from Whole Foods benefit from them. I am a friend of MAHA, but I am concerned that it is heading in that direction. We have a certain opportunity, and we must not waste it. Especially since there is no single, universal, precisely targeted goal that has many threads solving many problems.
They are all still fundamentally government-oriented. They are still asking for salvation through legislation. Basically, we either trade or ban something. That is the course of action. How did we get here? How did we reach this point? We reached it in 1906 when Upton Sinclair wrote the book "The Jungle" and revealed the atrocities occurring in Chicago's slaughterhouses, specifically in seven large meatpacking plants. There were seven then, controlling 50% of the meat supply in America. Within six months of the publication of Sinclair's book, those seven large corporations, Swift Armor, lost 50% of their sales.
The market voted.
I have never heard of anything like that. That is, when people receive information, they start to think. It is the lack of information that makes us stupid. When people receive information, they make rational choices, and that is exactly what they did then. Those seven large corporations went to bureaucrats and President Teddy Roosevelt and said, "Please, save us. We are going under and becoming socialists." The company said: we need a government quality mark to gain credibility in the eyes of the public. He replied: "OK, we will give your food a government quality mark. And so in 1908, the Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) was established. Previously, anyone could do business without bureaucrats, neighbor to neighbor, food trading was common throughout the country.
"There was no need to ask the government for permission to buy a glass of raw milk from a neighbor. However, FSIS changed all that. Suddenly, between our ability to make contracts and food consumers, bureaucracy appeared. 200 years ago, butchers, bakers, and candle makers were part of the village. They lived above their shops. They went to church in their community. Their children played together. Everyone knew who was good and who wasn't. This guy is a better cheese maker. That one isn't a good cheese maker. Everything was verified through the transparency arising from the community's judgment in the village."
"With industrialization, the village butcher, baker, and candlemaker moved to huge factories surrounded by barbed wire and watchtowers, and the industrial food system and paranoid consumers who had no access to it began to fear what they could not see beyond the fence. And who did they turn to for help? The government. Ralph Nader writes appeals on their behalf: 'Please, protect us.' We need a bigger tyrant than corporations. We need someone to look behind that fence and take care of us."
"Thus, what started as a sincere motivation and desire was caricatured. People did not realize that instead of looking behind the fence, bureaucrats intended to bed down with the industry and create an agency that would take control and a revolving door for the industry."
"Uberization"
"Today's industrial control system is outdated. We need to uberize the food system. 50 years ago, if someone in Kolkata approached you and said, 'Get into a car that has no markings, hasn't been registered, isn't driven by a government-checked person, and said it would take you to a museum,' you would have said, 'No way! I'll wait for a taxi!'"
"What enabled the change? The Internet created real-time democratic verification. Uberization allowed for transactions that were previously heavily controlled by the government to be conducted completely outside of government control; the Internet is the butcher, baker, and candlemaker in the global village thanks to the democratization of information and real-time verification. If you are a bad passenger, you won't get a ride. If you are a bad driver, you won't get a passenger. It becomes self-regulation. Think of Airbnb. In 10 years, Airbnb doubled the number of rooms in Marriott, Sheraton, and Hilton hotel chains worldwide. It doubled the number of rooms of all three major hotel chains worldwide, stepping outside of government control. That is the power of unleashing the market. So I have a proposal to solve this food transaction issue."
"Instead of regulation, let's try freedom, so that adults, exercising their inherent freedom of choice, can give their microbiomes the freedom to act without asking the government for permission for food transactions. We have the freedom of choice in the bedroom, in the bathroom, and in the womb, but we don't have it in the kitchen. I propose a solution in the form of""a food emancipation proclamation", so that we can engage in direct food exchange between neighbors without government consent."
"Currently, there is opposition to this idea. The opposition begins with the statement that we cannot grant you special privileges. That we need equal opportunities. 'We can't allow you to do something that Tyson can't afford.' It's like saying we will let you play football, but only in NFL stadiums. We need equal opportunities, like Sunday afternoon games in the backyard, where one goal is a lilac bush and the other is a five-gallon bucket with a shovel stuck in the ground. Playing football when the only place you can do it is an NFL stadium with a certified referee - that is not equal opportunity. This is not the same game, folks. It has completely different expectations. It is a completely different game."
"Food safety"
"When I testified in Richmond a few years ago about the home food bill, the commissioner of agriculture and consumer services in Virginia, a very nice man, took me aside during a break and whispered in my ear: 'Joel, we can't let people choose their food.' We won't be able to build hospitals fast enough to accommodate those who receive spoiled food from negligent, dirty farmers.' He was sincere. I have to believe him. I don't think he made that up; I think he really believed it."
When you say that, you assume that you trust bureaucrats more than farmers, which I think is unfounded and questionable. Furthermore, I would suggest that when it comes to our hospitals, they are already unable to keep up with the pace needed to accommodate people suffering from illnesses caused by the poor quality of government-approved food. So don't tell me about sick people. The problem is that food is regulated at the federal level. When our county wanted to try this solution, just as the state of Maine did, even though they were very aggressive in their intentions, the federal government did not allow them; it did not allow local or state authorities either.
Food choice
Yes, we have regulations regarding home food, but note that this does not apply to meat, dairy, or poultry, which make up 50% of grocery spending: in the American budget, 25% is dry products, 25% is fresh products, and a full 50% is animal protein. So if we really want to address the food system, we need to deal with the animal sector, which has been subject to federal regulations because you cannot buy a bone-in steak in our county that was raised and processed in this county. To buy a bone-in steak from my cow, that cow must be transported on an interstate highway to a federal processing facility, and then we have to bring it back to the farm.
Every bone-in steak you see in this freezer had to be transported from the farm and returned frozen so that I could sell you a bone-in steak from cows that are 15 meters away and are happy to never leave the farm this way. We could keep its entrails here. We could compost them. No, no, they have to go for disposal. In fact, if we wanted to bring the entrails back, we would have to use the same trailer that we transported 15 cattle to the processing facility, the same trailer with 50-gallon barrels that three hours ago transported live animals, and now they are dead. We bring the entrails back. They are now hazardous material that requires a hazardous materials transport license and ultimately cannot be transported on roads.
These food safety regulations have nothing to do with food safety. All other hazardous substances: prescription drugs, fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine, name any substance, cannot be purchased. They cannot be distributed. They cannot be possessed, and certainly cannot be used to feed your children. But in the case of food, the prohibition only applies to sales. You can buy this food, you can use it, you can feed your children with it, you can feed your neighbors with it, you can distribute it. You just cannot sell it. So someone here must be joking. Who really cares about food safety? If killing a bull in my field and cutting a bone-in steak from its carcass and selling it were dangerous, I wouldn’t be able to give it to anyone or distribute it. It wouldn’t be possible to buy it and certainly wouldn’t be free to feed it to your children. The hypocrisy of this is so glaring that it exceeds the bounds of imagination.
The benefits of food emancipation proclamation
Here are a few: first, production would never leave the farm for processing. This would bring about 30 to 40% savings on the price of local food. We, called the elites of local food, are accused of being expensive: Look how expensive your products are! Well, if that’s the case, it’s mainly because we are trying to squeeze a craft product into the paradigm of an industrial commodity, and that doesn’t work. Harvard Business Review conducted a study comparing craft products with industrial products. People make money on industrial goods. Of course. People make money on craft products. That’s obvious too. The problem arises when a craft product tries to become an industrial product, or an industrial commodity tries to become a craft product. And here we have a craft product being squeezed into an industrial paradigm - and that doesn’t work. Expensive craft food products struggle to compete with mass-produced industrial goods.
First of all, production should remain on the farm along with all its benefits and consequences. Secondly, streams of production waste are then integrated with other agricultural enterprises. For example, we can compost offal. If you produce cheese, you can feed it to pigs, edible animals, and the like. This essentially creates a closed, integrated carbon and food system. One of the biggest problems with our food system is its segregation. We have destroyed all those beautiful, synergistic, symbiotic relationships. Why were chickens and pigs neighboring the farm? Because they ate kitchen scraps and garden waste. And when we take them all away from the farm, we leave these loops unclosed. Thirdly, there is an economic opportunity for new entrepreneurial farmers who have access to the retail market. I meet thousands of farmers and small growers across the country who could easily support themselves working full-time on a 10-acre plot. They just need to be able to sell their products retail. Fourthly, an affordable choice for buyers; if we open up food choice options, it’s hard to even imagine what benefits this would lead to. Aunt Alice's homemade sausage, Uncle Jim's cured meats, there would be many such options. It’s hard to even imagine them. The fifth option is also interesting? Food deserts would be eliminated, and any vacant land in the city, near which an entrepreneurial tenant lives, could be used to grow food and sell it to neighbors.
However, if someone were to grow food there today and prepared a stew for the residents of the housing complex, within five minutes of selling the first portion to a willing, conscious buyer, six officials would knock on the door. This is not a zone designated for business activity. Where is the fire extinguisher? Where is the separate restroom? Where is the security plan? Where is the cold chain? Where are all these things...? That’s how food deserts are maintained. Sixth, we would eliminate the oligarchy. Bernie Sanders and AOC travel the country calling for: we must stop the business oligarchy. We must stop the oligarchy! Well, the only way they can imagine to achieve this goal and stop the oligarchy is with an even bigger government program; another agency that will oversee this... oligarchy. That’s what we’ve been doing for a century. And look where it has led us. Upton Sinclair believed that in 1906 there was a monopoly of seven companies controlling meat supplies for 50 years. Today, after massive government intervention aimed at protecting our food system, four companies control 85% of the market. Do you think this is a free market?
The reason we are so consolidated and centralized is not because of a free market. But because for over a century, the government has intervened in the market, introducing unfavorable concessions and regulations. They make big corporations cheaper to run than small ones. And seventh, and finally, that all of this can be achieved without the involvement of government agencies, without spending, without bureaucrats, and without increased taxes.
What don’t you like here? What’s the quickest and easiest way to make changes? I’m not an abolitionist, but let’s ask, is criminalizing what we don’t like the best way to bring about the discussed change? I suggest we achieve our goal faster and easier by creating a functional underground railway.
A few years ago, I spoke at a college in California to a group of students gathered in a lecture hall. During the Q&A session, something prompted me to ask a spontaneous question. I said: "I want to see raised hands: how many of you think that in order to eat a carrot from your own garden, a government inspector should certify that it is safe to eat?" One-third of the hands went up. Yes, that was in California.
However, I want you to think for a moment: the quickest way to health is good food. And the quickest way to good food is to free farmers and buyers from food control, policing, and slavery. So I’m not sorry. What is my dream? What is my goal? I’ll tell you, my dream is 30 minutes with Trump. I believe that if I presented this proposal to Trump, he would be interested. What could be more Trump-like than a nation declaring food emancipation?
In conclusion, I will say this: what good is the freedom of prayer, preaching, and assembly if we are not allowed to choose the fuel for our bodies? How can we pray, preach, and gather without such fuel? The only reason our founders did not guarantee us the right to choose our food is that they could not imagine a day when one could not buy a glass of raw milk from a neighbor. One could not buy homemade sausage, tomato salad, or tomato soup from a neighbor. They could not imagine that. Yet here we are, living in such a world today!
I suggest that the proclamation of food emancipation is a way to address many issues and problems. Not regulations! The most paralyzing thing the government can do to citizens is to declare that the only way to solve our problem is through regulations. That is the most disempowering thing that can be done to citizens. Citizens, the most effective way to solve social problems is to enable grassroots entrepreneurship and provide thousands of food producers access to the market. That will weaken the oligarchy, give us the freedom to choose our food, and ensure safe, reliable, and stable food supplies. We should be like a vast fleet of agile motorboats, not a huge, immobile aircraft carrier. How many of you agree with this? So let’s do it. May all your carrots grow long and straight. May your radishes be large, but not meaty. May the blooming and rotting of tomatoes affect your neighbor’s tomatoes from Monsanto. May coyotes go blind at the sight of your chickens in the pasture. May all your culinary experiments be delicious. May the rain fall gently on your fields, and the wind always be at your back. May your children call you blessed. Together, let’s make our nest a better place than the one we inherited. God bless you.
Thank you!
P.S. The conference was a huge success and one of the best I have attended. Preparations for next year's edition are already underway – and since this one was sold out with over 200 people on the waiting list, get ready to register as soon as it is announced!
Robert W Malone, MD
Virginia
1The SNAP program (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) is the largest federal food assistance program in the United States, formerly known as Food Stamps.
2A popular Finnish mobile game where the goal is to win the animal war..
3Ready-to-eat, portioned lunches and snacks.
4 HACCP is the Polish term for Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points.It is an international, mandatory food safety management system, particularly in the meat industry and food processing. Its goal is toprevent hazards (biological, chemical, and physical), rather than just final product control.
5Food truck – a delivery vehicle adapted for selling food.
6A gallon is approximately 3.8 liters.
7Make America Healthy Again - a slogan thrown by RFK, Jr. during Donald Trump’s election campaign.