Overtime, we both understood my role and I began to share what I learned with others on the team to do the same, encouraging their own style and approach.

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Feeling both understood and loved is absolutely central to how we grow into adults who understand and love.

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When we understood that the only options the USDA was open to embracing both included the planting of GMO alfalfa, we knew we had a responsibility to advocate for the most restrictive sets of regulations possible, and to have taken any other route at that juncture would have been a clear abdication of our responsibility to the our organic farmers and consumers.

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