Chuck Grassley: “Part of the problem that the Senators from the West are having comes from a lot of constituents who are legitimately…”

“Part of the problem that the Senators from the West are having comes from a lot of constituents who are legitimately expressing concern about the environment, legitimately expressing concern about the good management and a good economic return for the Federal Government on land that the taxpayers own, who do all this legitimately. But they forget, in the process, they are not appreciating what the consumer of America has in the way of production of food in America. I think too often the 98 percent of the people in this country who are not producing food--remember, that is 2 percent of the people in this country producing the food that the other 98 percent eat, or another way to put it, one farmer in America will produce enough food not only for Americans but for people outside of America to feed another 124 people--the 98 percent do not really appreciate the fact that food grows on farms, it does not grow in supermarkets.”