Food has historically been one of the most effective weapons in a despot’s arsenal.
I do believe MO has been hounding us about food from the moment she became First Lady....does she just wish this power or is she trying to wield it? and she started with the children.
***Food has historically been one of the most effective weapons in a despot’s arsenal.***
TRUE! It worked to control the hostile Indians by killing all the buffalo on the plains, forcing them to become dependent on the US government.
It worked for the Chi-Coms. They forced people to work by issuing “food credits” after so much labor had been done.
Sadly America produced so much food, even in the 1930s, during depression and drought that the government bought up thousands of livestock, shot and buried them, while also dumping milk, and limiting how much grain could be grown, all to get the price UP!
As my Mother-in-law said, “in those days it was steak for breakfast, steak for lunch,, steak for supper till you got tired of it.”
Sad thing is there were no jobs for many people to earn money to buy the steak.
Yep. Josef Stalin certainly used it (in the Ukraine and other areas) to an appalling degree.
Food has historically been one of the most effective weapons in a despot’s arsenal.
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Let’s see. Our leftist totalitarian fascist president and his lackies at the EPA have stopped half the needed water from entering the San Joquian valley which is the vegetable basket of the US.
Dams have been taken down in the northern US and conservative communities and farmlands are inundated with spring floodwaters.
Requirements for corn ethanol as an additive to gasoline has taken millions of bushels of grains out of the food system.
I think the shooting has already begun.
It’s all part of The Plan. Once fedgov has complete control of health care, food supply and energy we are nothing but slaves and serfs.
That’s probably why kings said all the grain goes in the communal granary, where possible, so they can control its distribution.