In these days of rampant government efficiency, spare a moment for the plight of the transgender farmer of San Francisco.
A video clip of U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Sec. Brooke Rollins at a recent cabinet meeting shows her making the following statement,
Even at the U.S. Department of Agriculture we’ve cancelled a $300,000 contract educating on food justice for queer and transgender farmers in San Francisco and a similar contract we cancelled in New York, again, educating queer and transgender farmers on food justice and food equality.
I’m not even sure what that means.
I’m with her. Over the years, I have traveled extensively throughout the 49 square miles of the City-County of San Francisco, I have never seen a plot of land that resembles a working farm.
The National News Desk provides a bit more detail on the cancelled grant, writing that the program covered the “San Francisco Bay Area.” I suppose drawing a larger circle around the city would capture a farm or two, even one with a queer or transgender proprietor.
But the grant has been cancelled and at what cost? I am reminded of the E.E. Cummings poem, which begins.
pity this busy monster, manunkind, not. Progress is a comfortable disease.
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