When prices for farm production went up to the level that farmers started getting a fair ROE (return on equity) farmers naturally opted out of the "Cheap Food for Consumers" programs, most often called the Farm Subsidies Program.
The result was loss of control over the food supply by government officials. This is the first time since the 50's that they have lost control of that, and politicians suddenly realized that they are going to face an angry voter pool.
Thus, they passed HR2748/S.510/HR2751 FDA Food Takeover Bill which allows them control of food supply again. Their aim, this time it seems, is NOT to flood the market with more food than Americans can possibly eat, but to punish us with an ironclad control on food supply.
It won't work, as the consumer is going to punish politicians with a whipping they won't forget for generations.
For all the bitching here on FR and elsewhere about 'paying farmers not to plant' the system we are now leaving was the most efficient, produced the cheapest and best food the world has ever seen.
It looks like the bitchers will have their way, and the results aren't going to be pretty.
I am glad there are a few who understand what is happening. You and I know what the outcome is going to be and it is not what the POLs tell us.
My family has farmed in this county for over 110 years. We are about to reverse the “Green Ag Revolution” that allowed us to defeat Parson Malthus and feed the world.
Now the Universities have sold out to Corporate Ag Breeders and HR2751 will seal the deal. My congressman voted against the bill and told me he had real problems with it, but it exempted “small producers”. But what he did not say and I knew was that it did not exempt “small processors”. If you do anything with farm produce you are under the FDA Food Takeover.
It is time again for the home garden and home food production. That was the only solution that made any sense, but the federal regulators want to end that, they just don’t want to tell you they do.
It is TIME to DownSize DC!!
THAT is the only solution to the mess we are in....