GM Crops (UK) Farmer to Farmer (Trapped in Monsanto System)

youtube ^ | 08-19-2011 | youtube

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Of course they do! And so does everyone else lobby for what seems of benefit to themselves, banks, auto industry, telecom companies, non-profit groups, everybody lobbies Washington.

But the folks chanting “frankenfood” and thinking one company is the fount of all farming woes forget, deliberately so, the farmers greatest enemy has been inflation and it is government policy that produces that, not Monsanto.

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“Industrial farming has it’s drawbacks but unless we’re willing to reduce the population of the U.S. by two thirds the days when the family farm was pop, mom and a big family are gone forever. “

That must be why we’ve been paying them not to produce food for several decades.

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A huge chunk of the farm subsidies have gone to people who are not farmers and never were. Paying non-farmers not to grow what they were never going to any way would seem to have little effect on food production and prices.

But if anyone wants to give Little House on the Prairie farming a shot...have at it.

The Heritage Foundation had a pretty good summary of the subject at “How Farm Subsidies Harm Taxpayers, Consumers, and Farmers, Too”.

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Thnk you!