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Brooke Rollins: “The minute we are not able to feed ourselves and we begin to…”

Featuring: Brooke Rollins, Republican | United States Secretary of Agriculture | National

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U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Farmers, Food Security & America First | 13th and Park

Published | Video Starts at 16:53

He's incredible. Right? If you had, you know, basically 60 seconds, what do you tell someone who doesn't appreciate maybe just how vital what you are fighting for is? Well, The minute we are not able to feed ourselves and we begin to offshore our food, we. Which has happened, that is the minute that our children and our grandchildren begin to not have the opportunity to understand and know freedom and liberty. And that is how paramount this is. We have moved away from the idea of eating real food. We mentioned that at the top of the conversation. (16:53–17:08)

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Asserts that offshoring food production has begun and poses a threat to future generations' freedom.

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