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Organic Food Shortages and Why You Should Smile

January 21, 2014 Food and Water Comments Off on Organic Food Shortages and Why You Should Smile

Today as I browsed news headlines from around the world I noticed that news outlets were reporting on organic food shortages due to high demand.  I could interpret this headline in both positive and negative ways, but generally speaking, I read this as good news.  I see this as proof people are becoming aware of the poisonous food being sold to us by industrialized agricultural corporations like Monsanto and rejecting it.  I see this as proof that we are winning the war against a centrally controlled monopoly of the global food supply.  Even if the bought politicians in Washington have done all they can to silence critics of genetically modified organisms (GMO) and forced organizations that are supposed to look out for food safety like the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to certify poisons as “safe” for consumption, people are rejecting the faux science of overpaid lobbyists.  Instead, people are opting for natural and organic foods.  Remarkably, this has not been because of market and government pressure, but in spite of it.  Rather than accepting that GMO crops are just as “healthy” and “safe” as non-GMO crops, consumers have overwhelmingly opted to purchase far more expensive produce because of health, taste, and nutritional value.  In this regard, the consumer has passed its verdict against the evil profiteers at Monsanto and similar corporations in spite of what the bought media may try to tell you.

This phenomenon demonstrates that in spite of corporate and government lies, dirty legal tactics, fancy marketing, and paramilitary raids designed to intimidate and scare farmers, the consumers can still think for themselves and back down billion dollar global corporations.  If it can be done at the supermarket, it can be done on other fronts such as domestic surveillance, illegal wars, and the demonization of firearms.  This should give us all hope.  It should also give Monsanto sponsored politicians like the current head of the USDA, Tom Vilsack, a man that has done immense damage to the health of millions in the US by forcing GMO crops into the grocery stores of America, to pause because their legacy will be one of dishonor and disgrace.  They will be seen and remembered as vile creatures that poisoned our children for profits.

The shortage in organic food also signals that the market for healthy, natural, and organic foods is growing and is profitable.  Anyone with good agricultural land should consider even small scale farming of organic crops as a way to supplement your diet and offset food costs during good and bad times.  Further, on a larger scale, investing in organic farming will be a lucrative enterprise.  As demand grows, these local farms will reap greater and greater profits.  After all, as the world population grows, so does the demand for good food.  However, land suitable for farming is inversely related to population growth so as the world becomes more crowded and requires more food, farmland acreage decreases.  This creates a classic example of economic supply and demand where higher demand for dwindling supplies of organic foods will continue to drive the cost of produce higher and higher.  Those of you able to capitalize on this basic business principle stand to handsomely profit as well as feed your community.

In summary, I welcome the growing demand for organic food because every cent redirected from industrialized, GMO farming to local growers weakens Monsanto and their despicable lobby while strengthening local communities and the health and security of our food supply.  I recommend all of you become informed on these topics and support your local organic and native food growers employing sustainable agricultural practices.  Even if organic food currently costs you slightly more, your health and taste buds will make it worth every dollar.

By Guiles Hendrik

January 21, 2014

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For more see: http://www.myfoxny.com/story/24501646/organic-food-shortage-hits-us

The Most Endangered Species: The Small Farm in America

August 12, 2012 Big Government, Constitution, Liberty and Freedom Comments Off on The Most Endangered Species: The Small Farm in America

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.

For more information, see the below article:

http://theintelhub.com/2012/04/27/the-family-farm-is-being-systematically-wiped-out-of-existence-in-america/