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Folly: "The pursuit by governments of
policies contrary to their own interests,
despite the availability of feasible
alternatives."
the government was taken over by
corporate interests.
It was an interesting
experiment, and for
a short time
provided hope for
mankind, until
Detroit, Michigan Shanghai, China
Squanderville vs Thriftville
By Warren Buffet
Oct 2003 FORTUNE
"As you may well know, the U.S. is now the
world’s largest debtor. According to the
Treasury Department, at the beginning of
2007, Americans—that includes you, me,
Citigroup, hundreds of thousands of other
businesses, and the federal government—
owed foreigners roughly $10.7 trillion.
“…in just three years, the external debt has
shot up by about 55 percent.”
"The culprit is the chronic trade deficit, which has been running
at almost 6 percent of G.D.P., a level unprecedented in our
history. To pay for the difference between our import bill and
our export revenue, we have to borrow from abroad.” - Portfolio.com, Little House on the Red Prairie, By John Cassidy
Our credit is no longer any
good. We are now aggressively
selling off our means of
production to foreigners.
Citibank to China, meat packing
to Brazil, steel to Russia,
aircraft to Europe, etc.
So this is where you grew up...
What happened Grandpa?
St. Francis, Kansas
Cheyenne County, Kansas
Effect of corporate power on rural America…
April 3, 2005 - St. Francis, Kansas
Searching the globe for
the hungriest people
that will produce the
cheapest…
Ariana Lindquist for The New York Times
SUPPLY CHAIN - This family-owned
workshop in Xinwangzhuang, a village in
Juangsu Province, China, processes pig
intestines. Mucous membranes from the
intestines are used to make heparin
Plummeting corn prices pushed the Froeses out of
their religious settlement in Chihuahau, Mexico, five
years ago and into the Midwest, where her husband
went from feedlot to feedlot until he found work.
National Beef majority owner approves
JBS S.A. purchase
No one seemed to think about "Reverse
Globalization“, did they? Where a foreign company
buys up an American company and runs the show.
We'll have a whole new set of rules, if this deal
goes through.
I highly doubt DOJ will be any barrier. There's
already been too much money slipped under the
table and too many revolutions of the revolving
door (Chandler Keys).
Burkie in Kansas
Now you (U.S. cattleman) will know
how Canadians feel with Cargill and
IBP/Tyson in our midst.
Tom C. – Canadian cattleman
Please, please Mr. Bastista, will you give
my starving children something to eat?
JBS Swift CEO, Wesley Batista
Livestock Producer or meat packing worker
Consumer Warning: Shopping at
Wal-Mart contributes to the economic
destruction of rural America and your
community! 2000
Beijing - Living Quarters Of
Wal-Mart’s Sweat Shop Labor
"Let us not forget that the cultivation of
the earth is the most important labor of
man. When tillage begins, other arts will
follow. The farmers, therefore, are the
founders of civilization." -- Daniel Webster
"The husbandman that
laboreth must be the first
partaker of the fruits"
- St. Paul This inscription appears over the portico
of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
headquarters in Washington, D.C.
"There seem to be but three
ways for a nation to acquire
wealth: the first is by war, as
the Romans did, in plundering
their conquered neighbors ---
this is robbery; the second by
commerce, which is generally
cheating; the third by
agriculture, the only honest Christopher Lowell as Ben Franklin
way, wherein man received a real increase of the
seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of
continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in
his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his
virtuous industry."
--- Benjamin Franklin, "Positions to be Examined Concerning National Health," April 4, 1769.
"I hope we shall... crush in
its birth the aristocracy of our
moneyed corporations,
which dare already to
challenge our government to
a trial of strength and to bid
defiance to the laws of their
country." - Thomas Jefferson, letter to George Logan.
November 12, 1816.
Corporations have emerged as the dominant governance
institutions on the planet, with the largest among them
reaching into virtually every country of the world and
exceeding most governments in size and power. -- When Corporations Rule the World, by David C. Korten
“…I see in the near future a crisis
approaching that unnerves me and
causes me to tremble for the safety
of my country. As a result of the war,
corporations have been enthroned
and an era of corruption in high
chairs will follow, and the money
power of the country will endeavor
to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of
the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few
hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this
moment more anxiety for the safety of my country
than ever before, even in the midst of war."
---Abraham Lincoln, letter to William F. Elkins, Nov. 21, 1864. Archer H. Shaw, ed., The Lincoln
Encyclopedia 40 (1950)
"It has been brought to such a high
degree of concentration that it is
dominated by few men. The big
packers, so called, stand between
hundreds of thousands of producers
on one hand and millions of
consumers on the other. They have
their fingers on the pulse of both the
producing and consuming markets and are in such a
position of strategic advantage they have unrestrained
power to manipulate both markets to their own
advantage and to the disadvantage of over 99 percent
of the people of the country. Such power is too great,
Mr. President to repose in the hands of any men."
-These words were spoken on the floor of the U.S. Senate by Wyoming Senator John
Kendrick in 1921
“The liberty of a democracy is
not safe if the people tolerate
the growth of private power to
a point where it becomes
stronger than their democratic
state itself. That, in its essence,
is fascism – ownership of
government by an individual,
by a group, or any controlling
private power.” - Franklin Delano Roosevelt - "32nd" - (March 4,
1933 to April 12, 1945)
OCM expressed disappointment today in the
Supreme Court's refusal to hear the Pickett v
Tyson class action cattle price manipulation
case. The Pickett plaintiffs filed a writ of
certiorari on January 6, 2006. The Supreme
Court declined to hear the case in a notice
published today.
"The Courts have now rendered the
Packer & Stockyards Act of 1921 (P&S
Act) meaningless," said Keith Mudd, OCM
president. "The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals
ruled previously that livestock producers can
show billions of dollars harm from price
manipulation, but if the packer has the
smallest business justification for its conduct,
the packer wins."
Supreme Court Denies Pickett Appeal
“When corporations no longer exist in order to
serve the ‘common good’, then it is the historic
right and civic responsibility of every person to
demand their public accountability, and if need
be, legal dissolution.” - John Peck, Democracy Teach-In Clearinghouse, Madison, Wisconsin
Eating is a moral act…
The Right to Nutritious
and Safe Food
The Dignity of the
Human Person
Why does our family have such longevity?
If man made it, don’t eat it! - Jack LaLanne
Once thought to be better than
road kill...but perhaps not!
Containing up to 20% Solution
Ingredients:
Water
Salt
Hydrolyzed Soy Protein
Flavorings
Polysorbate 80
Potassium Lactate
Sodium Phosphate
Potassium Acetate
Sugar
Sodium Erythorbate
Sodium Nitrite
“Fast food has hastened the mauling of our landscape,
widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an
epidemic of obesity, and propelled a juggernaut of
American cultural imperialism abroad.”
The Dark Side of the All American Meal
http://www.fastfoodnation-movie.com/trailer.php
MARCH 6, 2008
Watch the meat you eat
What does it take to scare America anymore? What does it take for
everyday people, regardless of their politics, to unite in outrage? What
does it take for the nation to demand the whole truth about an ominous,
very real threat to our food supply?
Apparently, 143 million pounds of recalled beef isn't enough…
“This absolutely is the tip of the iceberg.”
Perhaps the biggest misconception, Callicrate says, is that the USDA
really does inspect that beef you buy at the supermarket or eat at fast-
food places.
10/5/2007
Four sickened with E. coli from
Sam's Club beef patties from Cargill
SAVE MONEY. LIVE BETTER. ™
143 Million Pounds of Beef Recalled
-- Will the Industry Finally Change?
By Anna Lappé, Huffington Post. Posted February 24, 2008.
How has the beef industry gotten
away with such disregard for animal
welfare, human health, and the
environment?
E. Coli Scare Cuts Spinach Sales By LINDA A. JOHNSON
The Associated Press
Tuesday, September 19, 2006; 3:23 AM
Powered by the foods of modern commerce…
•Two-thirds of America's adults are overweight or obese
•As many as 30 percent of U.S. children are overweight
•Childhood obesity has more than doubled within the past 25 years
•Within the past 20 years, childhood diabetes has increased 10-fold
Americans' life expectancy already
falls more than 20 years behind
other developed countries; and with
U.S. obesity rates on a steady
incline, the years may be further
trailing.
Did you know? ... The most alarming
statistic in Michael Pollan’s bestselling book,
In Defense of Food, might be this: In 1960,
Americans spent 17.5 percent of the
national income on food and 5.2 percent on
health care. Today, spending on food has
dropped to 9.9 percent of national income,
while health-care spending has climbed to
16 percent.
…but what
about our food?
Performance Enhancing Drugs
1. “All Natural”: (USDA) Natural only means that the product is minimally
processed. It doesn’t mean that hormones and antibiotics weren’t used in
the production process.
2. “No hormones ever”: (Chicken in Tony’s market) Hormones are not used in
poultry production – Therapeutic, sub-therapeutic antibiotics and high levels
of arsenic in the feed are the major concerns.
3. “No hormones, no antibiotics, no pesticides – Tested and Verified”:
(Maverick) This wording deceives the consumer into thinking none of the
above was used in growing the animal – Not true, and the product may or
may not have been lab tested.
4. “No hormones or antibiotics added.”: (Safeway) No one is adding
hormones or antibiotics to meat after slaughter.
5. “Our cattle receive no growth hormone implants or antibiotics during
the last 100 days of the feeding period. (Nolan Ryan Beef) Most cattle
are given their final hormone/steroid implant at 100 days before slaughter.
This doesn’t mean the animals were raised without hormones and steroids.
The most aggressive programs include the use of five implants placed
under the skin of the ear at set intervals.
Pretend Labeling…
Revalor-XS is able to eliminate the process of re- implanting
because of its new delayed-release technology. The first dose
goes to work immediately after implant, just like Revalor-IS. The
second dose - shielded by the patented X7(TM) polymer coating -
goes to work after 70-80 days on feed to deliver the performance of
a Revalor-S terminal implant. Each implant contains 10 pellets - four
uncoated and six X7 polymer coated pellets - and supports
increased weight gain and feed efficiency for up to 200 days.
“Our cattle receive no growth hormone implants or
antibiotics during the last 200 days of the feeding
period.”
What if you could know the person who produces your food?
Cows and calves, St. Francis, Kansas
Linking consumers
with family farmers
and ranchers in a
sustainable and
safe food system
Good food…that’s good for you!
Food doesn't
get any better
than this.
