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Burt Rutherford Apr 01, 2019

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Anti-ag Green New Deal goes down in embarrassing defeat
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Last week, the Green New Deal went down in a public and very telling defeat in the U.S. Senate. The telling aspect was that that a rally in support of the bill was attended in large part by anti-agriculture activists, according to the Oklahoma Farm Report.

Senate Republicans were joined by two dissenting Democrats in voting no on the bill, while the rest of their Democratic colleagues voted present - effectively abandoning the Green New Deal to its fate, according to Scott Yager, chief environmental counsel for the National Cattlemen's Beef Association.

Yager says the threat this movement poses is far from over, insisting new legislation will continue to pop up in various forms as time goes by.

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