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Rick Santorum Addresses Questions from FFA

126 views · Published 25 September 2015 · 2:14 · Indexed 20 October 2026

Channel: RFD-TV · 2015 · Entertainment

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Q: "Good afternoon, Senator Santorum.  My name is Erica Baier, and I’m a current state officer for the Iowa FFA Association.  Your first question:  How concerned would you be, er, excuse me, would you be that young people today understand agriculture and food better, and would you be supportive towards those efforts?"

A: Rick Santorum: "Yeah, most young people, well most people generally, think food comes from a grocery store. They don’t realize where or how it got there. I ran into this a lot in Pennsylvania. We had issues that dealt with everything from timbering to EPA regulations on water or air, particularly because we’re in the Chesapeake Bay area. There is a lot of waste management issues that we had to deal with in Pennsylvania, and the folks in, in our cities had, you know, well, let’s clamp down on ‘em. You know let’s get tough. They don’t realize if we make it unprofitable for our farmers to be able to compete and grow crops at a reasonable price then, you know, that grocery store prices are gonna go up, and you’re gonna have scarcity and all sorts of other issues. It’s really important. I mean, that’s why FFA is such a great organization, because it does provide a great education for our young people. I only wish that we did a better job, candidly in making sure that those in our cities understood how important it is. I know RFD-TV is trying to do that. There’s a huge disconnect between those who live in urban areas and the problems that occur in the rural areas of our country. And unfortunately, most of the votes are in the urban areas. As a result, you don’t have a champion that understands those issues and is able to communicate to the public. I think that’s one of the one of the reasons I would encourage people to look at our campaign, because I try to do my best to educate people as to why we need to have a system in place that makes life in rural areas a lot more profitable than it is today."

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