The Biden administration handed foreign globalists a weapon to destroy American family farms.
Now Brooke Rollins is holding it – and hasn't thrown it away yet.
The weapon has a name, and what it does to a family dairy operation is exactly why Trump needs to act now.
How Pathways to Dairy Net Zero Became Biden's Weapon Against Small Farms
The Pathways to Dairy Net Zero initiative – P2DNZ – launched at the United Nations in September 2021, and Biden's Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was right there applauding it.
Vilsack said it would "position U.S. farmers, ranchers and forest landowners as leaders in addressing climate change."
Biden doubled down: "U.S. farmers are on the frontlines of climate change – but they're also part of the solution."
The solution they had in mind looked like this: the largest dairy processing companies and cooperatives – Nestlé, Danone, and their peers – signed onto P2DNZ and began sending letters down the supply chain to the dairy farmers who depend on them to buy their milk.
The letters requested emissions data, fossil fuel use reports, and proof of climate compliance.
They weren't suggestions.
A farmer who refuses has no practical way to get milk to market – because the big processors control the contracts with retailers.
Call it what it is: a squeeze play run from a UN boardroom with Biden's full blessing.
Dairy Farm Closures Are Accelerating and ESG Mandates Are Why
The USDA reported 15,000 small farms closed or consolidated in 2025 alone.
An estimated 2,800 dairy farms were projected to close that same year – and corporate mega-dairies are positioned to absorb every acre.
The "War on Dairy" report – a 39-page investigation published by Heartland Impact and Consumers Defense – explains exactly why small operations keep losing.
Every fixed compliance cost – monitoring systems, reporting requirements, third-party verification, consultant fees, capital upgrades – hits a family farm proportionally harder than it hits a corporate operation running ten times the volume.
The ESG machine does not need to put a single family farm out of business directly.
It just makes the numbers not work – and then waits.
USDA Must Withdraw from P2DNZ Now
Heartland Impact and Consumers Defense sent Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins a letter asking for two things: full disclosure of USDA's P2DNZ ties, and immediate withdrawal.
Rollins has already signaled she understands the problem.
She posted on X that P2DNZ would "burden small farms with costly compliance" and called out "radical ESG mandates disguised as sustainability."
A USDA spokesperson told the Daily Signal that "President Trump will not stand idly by while large, consolidated milk processors and the protectionist anti-competition bodies like the EU attempt to force our hard-working producers to hand over sensitive personal farm data."
Strong words – but the USDA's name is still on the P2DNZ participant list, and the spokesperson declined to confirm whether the U.S. has actually withdrawn.
The UN Has No Business Setting ESG Rules for American Agriculture
Even if every U.S. dairy farm went fully emissions-free tomorrow – every tractor parked, every operation shut down – the effect on global climate would be undetectable.
The War on Dairy report puts the math plainly: eliminating all emissions from U.S. dairy production would reduce global emissions by only a few tenths of a percent.
The cost to dairy families, however, is very real and very detectable in their bank accounts.
P2DNZ's architects – foreign-based UN agencies, multinational food corporations, and globalist financial actors – are not subject to American antitrust law, American farm policy, or American voters.
They are using market concentration as a weapon because they cannot use legislation.
Biden handed them the USDA's seal of approval to do it, and Rollins has not yet taken it back.
Trump ended U.S. participation in the Paris Agreement and pulled out of the World Health Organization because foreign bodies have no authority over American policy.
Pulling the USDA out of a UN dairy compliance scheme is the same call – and Rollins should pair it with an antitrust investigation into whether Big Dairy's climate demands on small producers cross the line into illegal market coercion.
No globalist boardroom should have the power to put a third-generation dairy family out of business for refusing to file a carbon report – and right now, thanks to Biden, they do.
Sources:
- Fred Lucas, "Exclusive: Trump USDA Faces Calls to Exit Climate Initiative Critics Call 'Private Regulation,'" The Daily Signal, September 3, 2026.
- H. Sterling Burnett, "Big Dairy Cabal's 'Dairy Net Zero' Efforts Must Be Stopped," Townhall, September 12, 2026.
- Samantha Fillmore, "By Targeting Dairy Farmers, ESG Wants to Decide Your Milk," RealClearMarkets, May 15, 2026.
