Dr. Christopher Gardner
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She's already serving a million kids in school with this new thing, and she's getting demands from school districts. Can you please come look at our school, certify it? Schools are buying new equipment. They're redesigning some menus. They're talking to the staff, and they have happier staff. They're talking to the kids. The kids like the food. If you put some effort into this,
She's already serving a million kids in school with this new thing, and she's getting demands from school districts. Can you please come look at our school, certify it? Schools are buying new equipment. They're redesigning some menus. They're talking to the staff, and they have happier staff. They're talking to the kids. The kids like the food. If you put some effort into this,
She's already serving a million kids in school with this new thing, and she's getting demands from school districts. Can you please come look at our school, certify it? Schools are buying new equipment. They're redesigning some menus. They're talking to the staff, and they have happier staff. They're talking to the kids. The kids like the food. If you put some effort into this,
You can make it taste good and be healthier and be affordable in rural, in red states, blue states. This can happen anywhere. It's really not โ certainly not just went to Stanford and got good tasting food.
You can make it taste good and be healthier and be affordable in rural, in red states, blue states. This can happen anywhere. It's really not โ certainly not just went to Stanford and got good tasting food.
You can make it taste good and be healthier and be affordable in rural, in red states, blue states. This can happen anywhere. It's really not โ certainly not just went to Stanford and got good tasting food.
And I would push back on small farms to middle-sized farms. So really what we've got is gigantic mega farms. And this isn't my area, so I'm speaking completely out of my wheelhouse right now. But if you look at the amount of corn and soy or potatoes or the way things are grown, they're really inexpensive because they're so huge.
And I would push back on small farms to middle-sized farms. So really what we've got is gigantic mega farms. And this isn't my area, so I'm speaking completely out of my wheelhouse right now. But if you look at the amount of corn and soy or potatoes or the way things are grown, they're really inexpensive because they're so huge.
And I would push back on small farms to middle-sized farms. So really what we've got is gigantic mega farms. And this isn't my area, so I'm speaking completely out of my wheelhouse right now. But if you look at the amount of corn and soy or potatoes or the way things are grown, they're really inexpensive because they're so huge.
If you look at dairy in the U.S., dairy farms in number have been going down and down and down. And the mega dairy farms are huge. So we have suicides in the dairy farmer community. Because of losing their family business. We have all kinds of, I'm sure you've heard this. This isn't any mystery, but a lot of farming families are having a hard time getting their kids to take over.
If you look at dairy in the U.S., dairy farms in number have been going down and down and down. And the mega dairy farms are huge. So we have suicides in the dairy farmer community. Because of losing their family business. We have all kinds of, I'm sure you've heard this. This isn't any mystery, but a lot of farming families are having a hard time getting their kids to take over.
If you look at dairy in the U.S., dairy farms in number have been going down and down and down. And the mega dairy farms are huge. So we have suicides in the dairy farmer community. Because of losing their family business. We have all kinds of, I'm sure you've heard this. This isn't any mystery, but a lot of farming families are having a hard time getting their kids to take over.
We have a lot of really old farmers in the U.S.
We have a lot of really old farmers in the U.S.
We have a lot of really old farmers in the U.S.
Yeah. So we got a brain drain because of sort of the get bigger, big out. We used to have diverse agroecology going on on farms and they would have some livestock and they would have some produce. And if there was any blight that happened, it didn't wipe out the farm because they had other crops or other livestock to back that up. And
Yeah. So we got a brain drain because of sort of the get bigger, big out. We used to have diverse agroecology going on on farms and they would have some livestock and they would have some produce. And if there was any blight that happened, it didn't wipe out the farm because they had other crops or other livestock to back that up. And
Yeah. So we got a brain drain because of sort of the get bigger, big out. We used to have diverse agroecology going on on farms and they would have some livestock and they would have some produce. And if there was any blight that happened, it didn't wipe out the farm because they had other crops or other livestock to back that up. And
At one point, there's a guy named Earl Butts who said, ah, the military, the men are too weak to be in the military. We're not getting enough calories. This goes back like more than 50 years. Plant corn or soy fence row to fence row. Buy more land. Buy the huge combine machinery to plant this. Don't be so diverse.
At one point, there's a guy named Earl Butts who said, ah, the military, the men are too weak to be in the military. We're not getting enough calories. This goes back like more than 50 years. Plant corn or soy fence row to fence row. Buy more land. Buy the huge combine machinery to plant this. Don't be so diverse.