Secretary Perdue urges farmers to fight ?Fear Your Food? movement

by | Feb 25, 2019 | 5 Ag Stories, News

It is the battle we are facing in agriculture. People who are working hard every day to produce food to feed a growing population, being met by people who want to tear down those efforts and paint farmers as evil. Activists are a mounting threat to producers, and they have a new movement; ?Fear Your Food?.

To farmers, it seems counter-productive to want to protest about those who are trying to feed the world. However, this is the case. Secretary Sonny Perdue says this movement threatens to derail advancements already made in agriculture and threatens to stymie new advancements in the pipeline.

Secretary Perdue says farmers need to be transparent. Tell your story, or someone else will. Be proactive. Farmers have nothing to hide. Show consumers they don?t have to fear their food.

Perdue says scientific data has shown again and again that our food is safe for the population. This data has been collected not only in the United States but in 28 other countries around the world. Bio-engineering has reduced the needs for pesticide usage. The EU has deemed the technology safe, even though it won?t let its farmers produce them.

The bottom line is farmers cannot hide from the fear-mongers. They need to find ways to share their story with the world. Reach out to consumers and show them they have no reason to fear their food.