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Team PAC
Team PAC
stated on February 7, 2022 in an ad:
Eric Schmitt “sponsored a bill to spend $480 million of your tax dollars” on cargo hub for airlines "owned by China's Communist Party” and "voted to let China buy up Missouri farmland."
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • February 9, 2022
NaturalNews.com
NaturalNews.com
stated on December 29, 2021 in a Facebook post:
"Food crops can be engineered right now based on existing technology to cause infertility in Black people alone.”
False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • February 7, 2022
Pat McCrory
Pat McCrory
stated on September 17, 2021 in a radio interview:
Ted Budd’s family used AgriBioTech money to help “give donations to these Washington special interest groups that are running negative ads against me in the Senate race.”
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • October 8, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on September 27, 2021 in social media posts:
“Were you aware the $3.5 Trillion Human Infrastructure package includes an animal agriculture tax of $2,600‼️ per head of cattle? $500 for swine!!!"
False
By Louis Jacobson • October 8, 2021
Shelley Moore Capito
Shelley Moore Capito
stated on August 12, 2021 in an op-ed:
“In West Virginia, a gallon of gas is nearly one dollar more than it was a year ago, and we’re paying about 30 cents more for a gallon of milk than we did at this time last year.”
Mostly True
By Maxwell Ionno, Olivia Murray • October 5, 2021
Viral image
Viral image
stated on August 24, 2021 in a Facebook post:
The US government is trying to create food shortages by telling farmers to destroy their crops.
False
By Andy Nguyen • September 7, 2021
Mark Walker
Mark Walker
stated on July 19, 2021 in a tweet:
Says he worked to pass the 2018 farm bill “that helped farmers, invest(ed) in rural broadband, and added work requirements for able-bodied adults, Budd voted NO.”
Half-True
By Paul Specht • August 3, 2021
Jill Karofsky
Jill Karofsky
stated on July 8, 2021 in Legal opinion:
“A farm with 2,500 dairy cattle is similar in waste load to a city of 411,000 people.”
False
By Laura Schulte • July 20, 2021
Lorraine Lewandrowski
Lorraine Lewandrowski
stated on February 24, 2021 in a hearing of the New York Senate Agriculture Committee:
It’s not currently “legal for a New York state student to have a glass of fresh whole milk.”
True
By John Pullano • June 7, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 22, 2021 in a Facebook post:
Lumber, gas, wheat, coal and corn cost more in April 2021 "in Joe Biden's America" than they did a year earlier.
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • May 27, 2021
Survival International
Survival International
stated on April 22, 2021 in a website press release:
With the goal to preserve 30% of the earth’s land and water by 2030, “300 million people stand to lose their land and livelihood, most of them tribal and indigenous peoples.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • May 7, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 15, 2021 in a Facebook post:
“Minority farmers get big bonus, white ones get none,” because of Democrats.
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • March 30, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 9, 2021 in a Facebook post:
Says Joe Biden “will redirect the $30 billion” that Donald Trump “left for U.S. farmers to ‘climate change.’”
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • February 18, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 24, 2021 in a Facebook post:
Soybeans dropped 70 cents and corn 50 cents per bushel in two days, causing farmers to lose big money, “thanks to Biden’s executive orders.”
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • January 28, 2021
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 14, 2020 in a campaign speech:
Says Joe Biden has plans to ban animal agriculture and gas-powered cars.
False
By Julia Shanahan • January 18, 2021
Theresa Greenfield
Theresa Greenfield
stated on October 30, 2020 in comments at a campaign rally:
Farm bankruptcies are "at an eight-year high."
True
By Lyle Muller • October 31, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on October 1, 2020 in a text post:
Says Joe Biden “wants American farmers to put their farmland into Gvt ‘land banks.’ Gvt would then tell farmers what ‘sustainable’ plants they could grow.”
Half-True
By Monique Curet • October 6, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 21, 2020 in a speech:
Says President Donald Trump started a trade war that “led to a surge in farm bankruptcies.”
Half-True
By Eric Litke • October 2, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 17, 2020 in Speech:
Says under U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal proposal, “Cows are out.”
False
By Laura Schulte • September 28, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 11, 2020 in Facebook post:
Says Kamala Harris wants to eliminate beef.
False
By Sophie Austin • August 14, 2020
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