Jim Goodman

Jim Goodman is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Platteville with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Animal Science. He also holds a Masters Degree in Reproductive Physiology. Jim and his wife Rebecca ran a 45-cow organic dairy and direct market beef farm in Southwestern Wisconsin for 40 years. His farming roots trace back to his great-grandparents immigration from Ireland during the famine and the farm’s original purchase in 1848 and Jim credits more years of failed farm and social policy than he cares to think about, as his motivation to advocate for a farmer-controlled consumer-oriented food system. Jim’s writing and speaking focuses on the principals of Food Sovereignty and the fact that food, like health care, education or the environment is not a commodity, but rather a basic human right.