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Von Ruden Meets Pope Francis During Trip to the Vatican
Wisconsin Ag Connection - 03/26/2015

The leader of the Wisconsin Farmers Union had the rare honor of meeting face to face with Pope Francis in Rome on Wednesday following a weeklong series of meetings with Vatican officials and rural organizations. Darin Von Ruden was among a small group of Farmers Union leaders who were granted an audience with the pontiff, where the group discussed the important role family farmers play in food security.

The delegation also spent time with Caldoritti, which is the largest farm organization in Italy, as well as the International Catholic Rural Association and the secretary general of the World Farmers Organization. The meetings are leading up to an International Symposium of Faith, Food and The Environment that will take place in Milan, Italy later this summer.

"In discussions with Vatican officials on environmental issues, one of their concerns is water and the availability in the major agriculture producing regions of the world," Von Ruden said. "Whether it's drought or contamination that we're facing, we need to make sure that the water supply remains safe and abundant."

The Farmers Union delegation said another one of its biggest challenges was dispelling the widely held myth that U.S. agriculture is completely dominated by large, multinational corporations and is thus inapplicable to the farming paradigms in most of the rest of the world.

The trip consisted of NFU state leaders from Wisconsin, South Dakota, Minnesota and Montana.


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