Survival Living Imminent In USA
Who would of thought that survival living would be a reality in America?
Americans are spoiled. We have so many choices at the grocer that it is outside the imagination that food won’t be there. Although there are plenty of right here in the united states who retire to bed hungry on a constant basis, the true food deficits which have sparked riots in other countries have so far escaped the States. It is foolish to think we are never going to face trouble forever.
Wendell Berry discussed in his book ‘The Unsettling of America’ 31 years ago that food was too necessary to be used as a weapon. People have ignored that concept for three decades because – WE have food on the grocery shelves and it can’t be that bad.
Society looked the other way as dairy farmers fought to hang on to herds of a couple hundred cows and maintain their way of life. It looked the other way again when small hog farmers were buried under 9 cent hogs, a price that meant ham alone brought twice what the whole pig cost. Some farmers gave hogs away as it would cost them to sell or keep them.
This eliminated many alternatives for our food. While we see now that with oil those who have it can, will, and do dictate the price folk don’t see the flashing neon sign that our food supply is in the same situation. Indeed, customers are for the most part so ignorant of it that they continue to buy on cost, generating cash for the few of company entities that hold the bulk of our survival food storage.
Archer Daniels Midland – ADM – bills itself as’ supermarket to the world’ and had a 67% increase in profits while Cargill – resented by little farmers around the world – had an 86% profit increase.
Most purchasers haven’t any idea what some ingredients in their products truly are.
for example, sorbitol is a hydrogenated sugar alcohol derived from corn, which is utilized in sugarless gums and candy, as well as being an ingredient in polyurethane.
As one of the largest processors of oil seed, ADM produces soybean powder and meal for human and animal use. Extracted from that is a crude oil used not only for edible oils, vegetable oils and lecithin, but also for commercial oil, biodiesel, and polymers.
Cargill – enjoying record profits – has its hands in baked products, cereals, drinks from alcohol to soft drinks to fruit drinks, candy and chocolate, dairy, health and organic ( think sports drinks, vitamins ), meat and chickens, pharmaceuticals, prepared foods ( seasonings, jams/jellies, side and main dish mixes, puddings, sauces and plenty more ) and snack foods. You won’t see ‘Cargill’ on grocery store shelves overtly labeled just like you won’t see the other majority players, but it’s there and much of what you eat comes from them.
Rest guaranteed when it comes to maintaining those record profits that they’ll have that in mind before those too poor to buy their foods. Cotton farmers in India, pushed out by Monsanto cotton, have committed suicide at the possibility of losing their livelihood, and farmers in numerous other {nation~countrie~state}s do not even desire them as neighbors. If it comes to their finances or yours – theirs will take precedence. Monsanto and Cargill each own half of a company that markets genetically modified foods globally.
Monsanto eagerly pushes farmers into courtrooms where a little farmer has no possibility of winning, whether or not they’ve ever planted their seed. One farmer was held accountable for planting their genetic altered seed on land he didn’t even own – which made no difference in the courtroom. Absolute power corrupts fully is an acceptable adage to describe what’s happening.
With these companies holding the overwhelming majority of our food supply what occurs when they raise prices and demand more profits? We will do without fuel – but we will not do without food. Unfortunately, the headlights are approaching and American purchasers don’t have any idea to move off the road.
Corporate America exists for one thing – Cash. They’d give a token amount for charities but profit comes before anything. Lower costs drive the ‘reasons’ for GMO products, which the general public don’t need to eat and farmers don’t want near their fields.
If your checkbook is drained and they are showing record profits do you suspect they’ll barter with you as little farmers will? Do you think they’ll feel sorry and say ‘here’s groceries until you get on your feet? Not going to occur – it cuts into their profit. Farmers have seen it – patrons don’t and are not aware of it.
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