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2 (10 oz.) cans chunked chicken (drained) 1 (8 oz.) pkg. cream cheese
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Heat chicken and hot sauce in skillet over medium heat until heated through. Stir in cream cheese and ranch. Cook, stirring until well blended and warm. Mix in ½ of the shredded cheese, transfer to slow cooker. Sprinkle remaining cheese over top. Cover and cook on low until hot and bubbly. Serve with celery, chicken flavored crackers or tortilla chips.
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THE LAND — JUNE 12/JUNE 19, 2020
Finding new ground Some observers see the ers and applicators to spray Black Lives Matter movean estimated four million ment as a tidal wave washgallons of dicamba on 60 ing away America’s original million U.S. acres to create sin — slavery — and the yet another year of “subsystemic racism it fostered stantial drift harm to farmfor more than 400 years. ers” — the exact reason for the lawsuit — who didn’t Maybe, but as the last 75 plant dicamba-tolerant years of the American civil FARM & FOOD FILE crops. rights movement has provBy Alan Guebert en time and again — and It’s a room service examoften in blood — rooting ple of why an increasing out hatred requires more number of Americans than water or promises. distrust Big Ag, the U.S. It demands a true change of heart Department of Agriculture, and govfrom America’s people and its ernment in general: they’re better at government. bending laws than abiding by them; better at sowing confusion than clariRight now, however, our deeply fying it. divided government and even more divided people can’t agree on what Another early June example of news is “fake” let alone how to fight a USDA taking on extra-legal authority deadly pandemic or eliminate the is Secretary of Agriculture Sonny equally deadly blight of bigotry. Perdue’s $3 billion “Farmers to How deep is our divide? Ridiculously Families Food Box Program,” that the White House explains as a way to deep. deliver excess farm produce directly to For example, according to survey hungry families. data cited in the June 9 Wall Street The idea, however, flies in the face of Journal, “Those who say they always reality and has been killed repeatedly wear a face mask in public settings by Congress as wasteful, duplicative, said they support Joe Biden, the and an open-ended Christmas gift to Democrats’ presumptive presidential political insiders and posers. nominee, over Mr. Trump, 66 percent to 26 percent. Those who never or So far, it’s been all those things. rarely wear a face mask back Mr. USDA has already discovered several Trump 83 percent to 7 percent.” wildly unqualified suppliers that hopped on its newest gravy train. One, The stark difference may partly a San Antonio wedding planner, explain why the United States leads received a $39 million USDA contract the world in Covid-19 deaths. As of to deliver “produce, meat, and dairy to June 10, the viral killer has claimed charitable organizations like the 114,000 Americans in less than four months. If experts are correct, it likely [local] food bank.” will kill another 50,000 to 60,000 by When that news became public, and Election Day, Nov. 3. the laughter died down, the wedding planner was kicked off the program. With that level of division already present in America, now is not the By the end of May, however, the San time to sow more through confoundAntonio Food Bank, which made its ing, conflicting federal action, right? own national headlines because of Recent events in ag prove otherwise. “aerial shots of thousands in line to pick up food,” still had “not received On June 3, a federal appeals court effectively banned the use of dicamba- relief from one of the USDA’s … biggest winners,” Perdue’s food box based crop sprays in the United scheme. States. Five days later, however, the Environmental Protection Agency By some miracle, however, a week ruled that farmers and commercial later Ivanka Trump, Advisor to the applicators could use dicamba stocks President, announced “5 million boxes they had on hand as of the court’s rul- have been successfully delivered to ing date. Americans most in need all across the That meant the court order somehow country…” was bent by the White House for farm- See GUEBERT, pg. 5
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