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Featured speaker at Maine Agricultural Trades Show luncheon provides food for thought
January 12, 2016
Brian Klippenstein says the predicted doubling of world food demand creates extraordinary opportunity for U.S. agriculture if we embrace diversity in methods of food production
AUGUSTA CIVIC CENTER? Brian Klippenstein, Executive Director of Protect the Harvest, spoke to a sold out audience at the Maine Agricultural Trades Show Commissioner?s Luncheon. A guest of Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Commissioner Walt Whitcomb, Klipperstein told attendees that the predicted doubling of world food demand presents opportunity for U.S. agriculture if we embrace diversity in agriculture, honor science and technology and work together.
Key Points from Klippenstein?s Remarks:
The predicted doubling of world food demand creates extraordinary opportunity for US Producers.
The US has soil, climate, tradition, land grant universities and technologies provider partners and the best farmers capable of helping meet skyrocketing demand.
We will need to produce as much food in next 40 years as the previous 7,000 (According to World Wildlife Fund).
It remains a hungry and troubled world and nearly a billion people are already chronically malnourished and two billion live on less than $3 per day.
Technology is not the enemy; hunger and poverty are the enemies. We must protect the viability of science and technology.
There are now heaps of money in the agitator community trying to control your plate. Food imperialists oppose consumer choice and, in particular, affordable food options.
The country is more urban and agriculture must stick together.
It is not just possible but mandatory that we foster diverse agriculture. There is no one way. How could there be 7 billion individuals with difference tastes, priorities, and incomes and different soil and climate and skills? There is no one way. The world needs all of the above to maximize diverse and affordable options.
If we honor science and technology and refuse the activists plan to divide us, we can provide more consumer choice and affordable options, minimize hunger and human suffering, and return economic growth to all rural regions of our country.
Brian Klippenstein:
Brian Klippenstein, Executive Director of Protect the Harvest, leads a nationwide advocacy for safe and affordable food choices sufficient to meet the unprecedented demands for food around the world in the upcoming half-century.
Raised in Northwest Missouri on a large registered beef cattle farm, he has experience across North and South America working both on ranches and showing cattle.
A graduate of George Washington University with a degree in Business, Economic and Public Policy, Brian worked 26 years in D.C. on Capitol Hill for a Congressman and two State of Missouri U.S. Senators, the last five years as Chief of Staff.
Propelled by his high protein red meat diet, Brian pursues athletic endeavors that range from being Captain of the G.W. University rowing team to off-shore sailboat racing and many distance running accomplishments including marathons, 50 mile and 100 mile events.
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