Huck on food

Finally, one way young people could be encouraged to go into farming would be to loosen regulations on small agricultural producers, artisans and family farmers, and giving incentives in the tax code to encourage small production (versus industrial agriculture).

Absolutely. You should pressure Huckabee to consult with Wendell Berry on agriculture policy.

Another good Dallas-area CSA is Barking Cat Farm, producing a wide variety of flowers and tasty, organic vegetables. http://barkingcatfarm.com/

I thought Huck's problem was that he was "on food" (i.e., as his drug of choice, since he didn't have any other alternatives being a Baptist preacher).

PS -- The Wyoming anecdote is interesting. So THAT explains Brokeback Mountain ...

Excuse me, does the Hale family farm only Christian organic chickens? This is hard to get my mind around...

Well, I don't know if you could strictly call the Hales' chickens "Christian." I hear tell that they're Monophysites. Heh.

I admit I don't know much about farming, but I suspect the same thing has happened there that has happened elsewhere...big business has pushed for regulation that specifically makes it harder for smaller businesses to operate, while at the same time fighting any that makes it harder for themselves to operate.

If we need more local certification places to test food, be it meat or plants, we need to actually pay for such places to be built. (That seems obvious to me, but when talking to conservatives, I'm never quite sure when they will find it obvious we need the government to spend money.)