Government Thugs Raiding Farms
The small family owned farm is disappearing at an alarming rate. Once a cornerstone of American life, the small farm has been obliterated by big industrial agricultural operations, heavy government regulation and bureaucracy, and schemes by Argi-corporations such as Monsanto. To say a small farm can’t compete is an understatement when the entire industry is rigged for them to lose. This is the result of what happens when corrupt businesses, crony capitalists, and progressive Marxists join forces.
One should not forget about Stalin’s false famine that wiped out 20,000,000+ people in the Ukraine alone. The Ukrainian famine is indicative of the affect on your food supply when leftists joining with industry gain control of your agricultural industry…they use it as a weapon against the population. Disagree? Today’s government is forcing corn to be used in ethanol production to satisfy a green agenda that could be better used to keep food prices down for the world. Previous price spikes as a result of corn crop failure led to the starvation of many globally. Further, the insistence on the use of GMO seed is generating super resistant strains of insects and diseases now requiring a return to even greater uses of more potent chemicals that combined could be lethal for your health. Even worse, Congressional lobbying by corporations like Monsanto have effectively stopped the FDA from mandating GMO labeling, which would help small farms, break seed monopolies, and improve the health of millions that unknowingly consume theses products. One should ask what happens when the only farms left are controlled by a few mega corporations that have a sole mission of profit? Consider your health and the security of the food supply at risk. Once a monopoly is established, price manipulation for maximum profit will almost assuredly be the result to speak nothing of the product quality. What is even scarier is that one of the easiest ways to spike prices are to reduce supply. This will equal global starvation and destabilization. From a purely government perspective, the ability to force the population to become solely reliant on a few government controlled agricultural operations for food is in effect total control over life and what Stalin accomplished.
Fortunately, there is a significant backlash in this nation and Europe. Europe has mandated labeling of GMO and has put funds toward insulating the small farms. Domestically, people from across the political spectrum want healthy, organic, non-GMO food raised in a responsible manner. They are also willing to pay more for it meaning that no matter how much Monsanto and big agri grow…or recently, not grow food…the small farms can still find a niche “IF” government reduces regulation. Today the American farmer is subject to some of the most regulation in industry, but has one of the smallest profit margins so small farmers are disproportionately affected. Dealing with the USDA, FDA, IRS, EPA, Dept of Labor, etc. for a single family owned farm is near impossible when you don’t have the lawyers of big corporations and lobbyist firms to fight the thugs.
To resist this takeover of American agriculture, the media and public should focus on exploiting the natural rift in ideology within the Democratic party in particular. Split away the environmental crowd from the leftists that have co-opted them into the party. Environmentalists should quickly see that their support of big agri-business and leftist agendas will deprive them of both their ability to raise and consume healthy sustainable food as well as damage the environment through the use of chemicals and GMOs. The environmental lobby is better suited to an independent libertarian political ideology than that of the Democrats in both practice and theory. Further, both parties should be pressured at the local, state, and federal levels by their constituents to allow for the labeling of GMO based products. This will go far in breaking the Monsanto monopoly. Finally, push legislation that disarms regulatory agencies. The FDA and USDA should not be raiding small farms with military SWAT teams. Defang the agencies and let actual law enforcement agencies handle the policing if it is ever actually necessary.
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