Killing Family Farms By Corporatism
By Karen Schumacher
As if the cost of food wasn’t bad enough, beef is almost out of reach. Dr. Meryl Nass interviewed two farmers, Jim Mundorf and Shad Sullivan, who explained the issues affecting family farms that produce beef and other meat products. However, more concerning is the corporate takeover of those farms and other meat producing industries.
Over decades, family farms have been pushed out of diverse production into a centralized corporate control over agriculture. Environmental regulations have played a role in this change, at a huge cost to farmers. The government played another role by allowing global corporations to merge. As explained in the video, corporations have been taking over agriculture and putting local meat packing plants out of business, causing ranchers to go broke. Appallingly, anti-trust laws that would have prevented this have been ignored by the government.
One corporation mentioned is Tyson, a World Economic Forum (WEF) partner, which has one of the worst records for poultry contamination. Cargill, another WEF partner, has also had issues with contamination. Corporate meatpackers, of which a couple are foreign owned, include WEF partner JBS, which has majority ownership of Pilgrim’s Pride, and Cargill.
Corporations have taken over the hog and poultry sectors and are now aiming for the beef industry. Because competition has been eliminated, farmers are held hostage to corporate dictates. These factory “farms” are not conducive to a healthy environment.
Another regulation costing farmers is the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) meat inspection program while meat brought in from foreign countries does not have to be inspected as often. Congress has failed to pass the Prime Act which would eliminate this injustice to U.S. farmers.
As Mundorf and Sullivan note, RFID tags are nothing more than a tracking mechanism to fulfill the World Health Organization (WHO) One Health agenda, which the USDA supports. This agenda allegedly links disease between humans, animals, and the environment. What One Health really does is add more burdensome costs to farmers, increase surveillance, and boost corporate profits for testing and monitoring. It is just one huge scam in which our government participates, and supports.
These farmers are astute in their recognition that the whole industry is being used for data collection, and that “sustainability” is nothing more than production and consumption control, which is technocracy. And they understand the problem falls under the guise of One Health.
It is a WEF dream to eliminate meat from diets for the sake of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and “zoonotic diseases.” What better way to do this than crush American farmers and poison the meat that comes from its corporate partners.
Dr. Nass explores this agricultural monopoly further in an interview with Joe Maxwell starting at the 32:55″ mark in this video. As Maxwell explains, it was our federal government that destroyed family farming. He also points out how the “big beautiful bill” consolidates this monopoly even further with more damage to the small farmer.
Maybe the government’s failure to enforce anti-trust laws should be referred to the Department of Justice. Contacting representatives to support the Prime Act passage would be another action that would put control over the industry back into family farms and state hands. It is another reason the Centers for Disease Control needs to be reformed. Maybe even President Trump needs to be told that his movement is not pleased with such a devastating blow to farmers with his big beautiful bill.
As long as corporations are in control of food production, no one is safe. Buying food from local producers is the only safe food source. And, as one needs to be reminded, technocracy is control over all production and consumption, and as long as they are in control over food, we are all at risk of harm.