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If we can get people to focus on fruits and vegetables and more healthy foods, we'll be better in terms of our healthcare situation. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#focus #foods #fruits #get #healthcare

Although they are some of the hardest working folks I know, rural Americans earn, on average, $11,000 less than their urban counterparts each year. And they are more likely to live in poverty. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#average #counterparts #each #earn #folks

But It doesn't make sense for us to have a continued reliance on a supply of oil where whenever there is unrest in another part of the world, gasoline prices jump up. We need a renewable fuel industry that's more than corn-based, of course, and there are a whole series of great opportunities here. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#continued #course #fuel #gasoline #gasoline prices

Every dollar of SNAP benefits generates $1.84 in the economy in terms of economic activity. If people are able to buy a little more in the grocery store, someone has to stock it, package it, shelve it, process it, ship it. All of those are jobs. It's the most direct stimulus you can get in the economy during these tough times. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#activity #benefits #buy #direct #dollar

More than half of America's rural counties are losing population and with it, political representation. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#counties #half #losing #more #political

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#because #devise #direct #does #her

Somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the food you eat has been touched by immigrant hands, and it is fair to say some of them are not here as they should be here. But if you didn't have these folks, you would be spending a lot more - three, four or five times more - for food, or we would have to import food and have all the food security risks. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#between #eat #fair #five #folks

There is more potential for economic growth in rural America than at any time in decades. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#any #decades #economic #economic growth #growth

We know that there are significant health benefits from consuming more fruits and vegetables, and that's an opportunity for us to sort of move away from some of the meals that we've been preparing in the past. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#been #benefits #consuming #fruits #health

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake? ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#clearly #does #dreams #eye #imagination