‘No, by shifting from wheat to soybeans. In Atlas Shrugged, Ma Chalmers was the Food Czar, and she let the nation’s wheat crop rot in favor of harvesting soybeans. Her rationale was that Americans needed to eat more like Asians for their own good.’
That is so friggin spooky. You can absolutely see that happening, given all of the other crap they’ve shat out on Americans.
Please don’t give them any ideas, though, they surely haven’t read “Atlas”, but you know they monitor FR. Out with the wheat, in the ethanol corn and soybeans..... for our own good.
and the soybeans now are all genetically modified, Monsanto, follow the money
Dagny receives a phone call from Minnesota. The rail cars set to haul that state’s wheat crop have not shown up, and the massive harvest will rot in its silos. The caller says that once he hangs up, he is going to become a deserter. Dagny’s investigation within the railroad shows that every necessary form has been filled out, but the grain cars are not going to Minnesota. She finds that the paperwork has been falsified, and Cuffy Meigs is sending the cars to Louisiana to carry Emma Chalmers’ soybeans, now deemed more important by the government bureaucracy than wheat.
Minnesotans riot and burn down government and railroad buildings, while the press clamps a lid on the story. The railroad rounds up every kind of car imaginable and sends them all to Minnesota, and grain slowly begins to move. When Minnesotans take matters into their own hands, the State Chief Executive asks for the Army to intervene, and the Aristocracy of Pull finally gives Minnesota a higher priority than Emma Chalmers. But it’s too late; the cars are in California where the soybean processing plant is located. Minnesota degenerates into civil war as the wheat rots, and the soybeans turn out to be unfit for human consumption.
Coming soon to a farm state near you.