Comments on: Tulare Mayor takes on the Ag community

By: Tulare Citizen

Tulare Citizen — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 04:09:42 +0000

Carlton Jones took on AG and lost miserably. He lost because of his lack of integrity, education, experience and erratic self absorbed behavior. He has to keep forcing his name off of the reorganization agenda in an attempt to keep his title for his ego not for the good of the city. The scandals and corruption are surfacing and it’s time for Carlton to go and the Police Chief to return.

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 21:30:24 +0000

In reply to Speaking truth.

So you must not think that air pollution comes from the big city’s over the mountains and then stuck in our valley until we get wind or rain Really if you and the mayor hate Tulare so badly then leave.

By: dick

dick — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 18:47:26 +0000

truth
the truth is we have a mess in our city goverment and the only way to clean it up is to remove the mess we have on the council.. he has every person who works for the city looking over their shoulder

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 21:09:56 +0000

In reply to lucy.

For Shame Lucy, The Air quality is low because Tulare is in a valley and the smog from up north rests in the valley. And the water problem is perpetuated because the same people causing the air pollution care more about some dumb fish than they do about the worlds food source. And who is funding some sort of propaganda? look valley fever isn’t caused by Ag because valley fever isn’t only in locations with Ag. Its caused by a fungus that when disturbed by oh say wind or construction or digging releases spores in the air that can give susceptible people valley fever. I’ve read about some pesticides causing cancer but i haven’t seen any reports on how planting trees or vegetables causes cancer… but maybe Im only reading Big Ag propaganda. It’d be nice if the Mayor of “Ag center USA” would be more positive and focus on the good changes Ag has made over the years to reduce water consumption and the effect it has on the land/resources… but instead the Mayor attacks Ag and calls Farmers welfare recipients. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.

By: Speaking truth

Speaking truth — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 11:44:10 +0000

Tulare county famos for worst air in the nation. Dustbowl farming pracrices and exhaust. Dropping, water tables, a labor pool of illegals. Thanks Ag. You job depends on taxpayers cleaning up the mess you leave.

Tulare county needs clean farms not corporate welfare

By: Colo

Colo — Tue, 29 May 2018 02:39:17 +0000

In reply to George.

George, I appreciate especially your very last clause: “we sell ourselves short when we pretend that their is no room for improvement.”

I just recently watched the documentary “Fresh”, and it does an excellent job of surfacing the difference between ag that is truly life-giving and ag that is not. Worth watching for anyone who lives in this Great Central Valley, and especially so those who farm the land themselves — for whom I have a great deal of respect.

By: andrew dungan

andrew dungan — Mon, 28 May 2018 16:44:48 +0000

I think the nitrates in the ground water poisoning well across the valley are the result of an effort to improve yield. I don’t think that farmers understood the consequences, but now we need to protect the water used to grow fooe and the water that we need to drink.

By: KEN

KEN — Wed, 23 May 2018 02:29:50 +0000

In reply to Jamie Boley.

WOW, So he should continue to lie to all of Tulare about his personal opinions? He was elected not for his RACE, but for his loyalty to our way of life. Now we see he is a complete “First African Mayor” moron….Jones commits credit card fraud, then has the Chief fired for investigating his crime.. What an EMBARRASSMENT to our City…

By: Debbie

Debbie — Tue, 22 May 2018 16:53:41 +0000

Mr Jones.
So sad you have to make so many good hard working people upset. These people have been working for generations to feed the world and employ many hard working people in the process with the resources they have to do it with. This has been the number one Ag sector of the world for a long time and many people from around the world are proud of that and what we have all accomplished. If you choose to not support the community in that you wish to run. Feel free to move to a city that has no agriculture. I am sure it has millions of cars that give off pollution. Maybe you can go bash them for driving to work to make a living and polluting the air that we breath. All that pollution is cancer causing too if you talk to the “right” scientist. While we try to produce more God designed trees that clean the air from out human footprints.

By: Saul Travers

Saul Travers — Tue, 22 May 2018 16:26:52 +0000

In reply to George.

I agree that the tribalist paradigm is dysfunctional. Of course industrialized ag come with problems that we must adapt to. The history of Westlands and their expansion into unsuitable soils that leach out selenium is and example. The past history of unrestrained application of fertilizer has led directly to a rising problem of nitrates in drinking water.
But society’s prosperity is directly dependent on ag that feeds more and more people using less and less human labor. We just need to fully understand the costs that are not being paid at the grocery store.