Pres Trump and RFK jr explain;
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#news RFK Jr. explains why Bill Gates & China are allowed to buy up farmland in the U.S.
#China
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. explains how a state senator in North Carolina - passed laws to protect giant food companies - then partnered up with the company to take over 28,000 farms and sell them to China, here's the story:
"I spent many years, 20 years suing the factory farms, the big hog farms, the big, chicken producers like Tyson and Bob Bell, Grumman. Smithfield Foods, is as big as pork producer as you could get."
"Smithfield came into the state of North Carolina. They built a slaughterhouse that could process 30,000 hogs a day."
"Then they had a partner named Wendell Murphy, who was in the State Senate, and he passed 28 laws and the North Carolina State Senate, making it illegal to sue a factory farm."
"He left and went into partnership with Smithfield"
"Smithfield created a way to raise pigs instead of raising them on farms to raise them in warehouses called Murphy 1100's"
"They dropped the price of pork from $0.60 a pound to $0.02 a pound. It put out of business All 28,000 independent hog farmers in the state of North Carolina, and it replaced them with 20 to 100 factories, all of them either owned by Smithfield or contracted to Smithfield"
"The only farmers who could stay in business were farmers that signed a contract."
"They mortgaged their homes to put those big hog sheds, the Murphy 1100s on their property and they lost all control."
"They become serfs on their own land as Smithfield dictates all their farming practices. It gives them that food. It delivers the piglets, picks up the grown animals and brings them to slaughter."
"They put out of business 28,000 farmers and it controls now of 80% of the production in North Carolina"
"Because they dropped the price in North Carolina, Iowa had to adopt the same system."
"They had to cave and Smithfield. They ended up taking control of 80% of hog production in our country."
"Then they sold themselves to China, so now China owns all that hog production in America, and it controls our landscapes."
"And that's the end of Thomas Jefferson's vision of an American democracy rooted in tens of thousands of independent freeholds, each one owned by family farmers, each with a stake in our system of government."
"And that's why all of this industrial agriculture, not only gives us substandard food, they're also taking control of our landscapes. And that is a huge threat to American democracy."
#NorthCarolina
#Iowa
I heard of the purchase of Smithfield some time ago..and haven't bought the brand since.
