Is it time to abolish the U.S. Department of Agriculture?

For The New Republic, Gabriel Rosenberg and Jan Dutkiewicz argue that we must always abolish the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and exchange it with a Department of Food that may prioritize the pursuits of laborers and eaters, in addition to public well being and the setting. The writers level to many examples of the division’s “support for a dysfunctional status quo,” however the actual crux of the drawback is that USDA was constructed “for a different country and a different time,” when a majority of folks made their livelihoods from agriculture. Not solely does that nation not exist, however the writers argue that it’s been “replaced by one where very few people—and very few, very large corporations—control food production and distribution to the detriment of American consumers, taxpayers, and workers.” What would a People’s Department for the folks actually seem like? —Tina Vasquez