Reform the USDA

Harvey Washington Wiley, Chief Chemist of the Department of Agriculture’s Division of Chemistry (third from the right) with his staff in 1883 – Public Domain

Harry Truman once proclaimed: “No man should be president who doesn’t understand hogs.” That might explain the calamitous mess that President Trump and Elon Musk are making of our government today.

Clearly, Trump and Musk know nothing about four-legged farm animals. But they certainly know how to squeeze the government to fatten...