HOW AGRIBUSINESS HAS HIJACKED THE USDA

Food and Agriculture Conference of The Organization for Competitive Markets ^ | July 23, 2004 | BY PHILIP MATTERA

[Calpernia]

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[Calpernia]

ping

[Maximus of Texas]

Can you boil it down to 10 sentences or less?

[Calpernia]

Not really. Matter of fact, I have more links I was going to add on :(

[Calpernia]

USDA is monopolized by Agri Business and no longer for the farmer?

[Fury]

These overgrown livestock facilities, which house and feed 1,000 or more animals in a confined area, are among the biggest contributors to agricultural pollution. Also known as factory farms, CAFOs produce enormous quantities of manure that contaminate water supplies and cause other environmental problems.

Please... this statement makes broad brush claims that are not supported with any accompanying facts. I know folks who run CAFOs - some are not well run, others are very well run and are good stewards of natural resources.

If these folks want to make claims, at least they should back it up with some fact...

[pissant]

I'd prefer they get rid of the USDA altogether, along with HUD, BATF, EPA, Dept of Ed., Civil Rights Commision, PBS, FEMA, and about 40 other federal institutions.

[vrwc0915]

The jackasses that run the USDA all come from mega farms and want to drive the family farm/ranch out of business so they can acquire the land at fire sale prices and get big government into the rural parts of the USA

Hows that

[Calpernia]

bump

:)

[rellimpank]

--Gabriel Kolko, whose 1963 book The Triumph of Conservatism--

--this is a great book.

Incidentally."Business" usage of the power of the government gun to control markets is not new and was warned against by Adam Smith in his famous comment on what shopkeepers do when they get together--

[vrwc0915]

Your posts are too well thought out and have supporting documentation, most would rather chant GO BUSH GO REPUBLICAN than wake up and realize that we are on the eve of civil war and a new dark age

[rellimpank]

--"big government" has been in the rural parts of the USA since the Roosevelt Administration--

[AZ_Cowboy]

That's about right. The mechanism through which this will be accomplished includes:

NAIS
Open Borders
The Death Tax

[Calpernia]

Thanks VRW. Hopefully, with all our groups watching what is going on now, it will no longer be 'business as usual'.

[vrwc0915]

is that a self portrait

LOL

[Calpernia]

Sort of. It is a caricature. Oil painting my friend did. This one too.

I took digitals of the paintings for emoticons.

[SouthernBoyupNorth]

Hear! Hear!

[PeterPrinciple]

George Stigler, a leading figure in the conservative Chicago School of Economics, wrote a widely cited 1971 article in which he argues that industries seek regulation in order to control entry into the field and otherwise restrict competition.


yep.........

[AZ_Cowboy]

So true...

Don't worry, though, the brigadiers will be along shortly with posts reflecting their immense intellectual prowess, which usually amounts to people hurling third grade level insults or sneering at you the way you would expect an urbanite liberal to do.