The Atlantic Monthly‘s website has had a link to the text of a speech from last year (click the image to the left to go to the source), with some notable observations:

Genuinely sustainable farming maintains the resilience of the entire ecosystem by encouraging a rich level of biodiversity in the soil, in its water supply, and in the wildlife — the birds, insects, and bees that maintain the health of the whole system. Sustainable farming also recognizes the importance to the soil of planting trees; of protecting and enhancing water-catchment systems; of mitigating, rather than adding to, climate change.

To do this it must be a mixed approach: one where animal waste is recycled and organic waste is composted to build the soil’s fertility. One where antibiotics are only used on animals to treat illnesses, not deployed in prophylactic doses to prevent them; and where those animals are fed on grass-based regimes as Nature intended.

This fellow has written, spoken, and acted responsibly with regard to agriculture and food production.  We give him credit, because it was probably not the most obvious, nor easiest, thing for him to do under the circumstances.