The ugly reality behind Tim Walz’s farm-friendly image

Tim Walz has a long history of providing free advertising and public funding to the meat and dairy sectors that trash Minnesota ’s treasured waterways, torture animals, and endanger public health and vulnerable workers.

The photo of Walz holding a piglet at the Minnesota State Fair appears innocent, even endearing, but the pork industry, and that piglet's life? Not so much.

As Democrats watch their share of the vote in farm country slip away, characters like Walz bring an obvious appeal to the party.

Gov. Walz has little to say about factory farming dirtying Minnesota ’s waterways.

Walz represented Minnesota in the US House of Representatives for six terms.

If Harris wins the White House , Walz could be influential in setting the administration's agricultural agenda.

But there's little evidence so far that he would be willing to buck the buck and advocate for meaningful reforms.

A second term would likely be even friendlier to Big Ag than a Harris-Walz administration.

But there’s less daylight between Republicans and Democrats on agricultural policy than you might think.

“We’re not going back” has become the de facto campaign slogan of Tim Walz .