Posted on 07/09/2022 9:43:11 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD), author of Not My First Rodeo: Lessons from the Heartland, warned of China’s procurement of U.S.-based food production assets on Friday’s edition of the Breitbart News Daily podcast with host Alex Marlow.
Noem described foreign acquisitions of U.S. food production infrastructure and arable land as a threat to national security.
“I have been talking about food security as a national security issue for about 15 years, now, being involved in farming and ranching,” she remarked. “I was very young when I started working on federal policy, because the United States has always embraced a policy where we believed it was important to grow our own food in this country, and I’m a strong believer that when another country controls our food supply, that’s when they truly control us.”
She continued, “If we think a pandemic was scary, wait until we realize that we can’t put food on the grocery store shelves because China controls the entire system, and what most of America hasn’t been paying attention to, is that China — for years — has been buying up our chemical companies, our fertilizer companies, our processing systems, and now they’re buying land, and we have foreign countries that are heavily invested in that entire supply system.”
“We are losing control of the ability to feed our people,” she warned, “and that’s what is challenging us today. We finally are waking up to that, but it is going to be a serious situation that this administration needs to recognize they have a huge role in, and all they’ve done is strengthen our enemies and given them more ability to control our food supply which makes us in a very precarious situation as a country.”
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I read her book Not my first Rodeo, after reading in I couldn’t help think that I would vote for her if she went for POTUS. She’s amazing.
biden is much worse than I ever thought he could be. He is giving away this country to china, ukraine and the taliban.
That 300 acres is next door to Grand Forks Air Force Base.
Not only China but Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have been buying up farmland like crazy. Why? To control the food source that we depend on.
Hell is going to light up like the Fourth of July when these people get there .
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