Survival Living Imminent In USA?
Who would of thought that survival living would be a reality in America?
We in America are spoiled. We have so many selections at the grocery store that it is beyond the imagination that food won’t be there. Although there are plenty of right here in the US who retire to bed hungry on a regular basis, the true food shortages which have sparked riots in other states have thus far escaped the USA. It is foolish to think we are immune forever.
Wendell Berry mentioned 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 idea for thirty years because – WE have food on the grocery shelves and it can’t be that bad.
Society looked the other way as dairy farmers endeavored 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 entire pig cost. Some farmers gave hogs away as it might 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 people don’t see the flashing neon sign that our food supply is in an identical scenario. Indeed, customers are for the most part so ignorant of it that they continue to buy on cost, generating revenue for the scattering of corporate entities that hold the majority 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 the world over – had an 86% profit increase.
Most patrons haven’t any idea what some ingredients in their products truly are.
for instance, sorbitol is a hydrogenated sugar alcohol derived from corn, which is employed in sugarless gums and candy, as well as being an ingredient in polyurethane.
As one of the biggest processors of oil seed, ADM produces soybean powder and meal for human and animal use. Removed from that’s a crude oil used not only for eatable oils, plant oils and lecithin, but also for economic oil, biodiesel, and polymers.
Cargill – enjoying record profits – has its hands in baked goods, cereals, drinks from alcohol to cola drinks to fruit drinks, candy and chocolate, dairy, health and organic ( think sports drinks, vitamins ), meat and poultry, pharmaceuticals, prepared foods ( seasonings, jams/jellies, side and main dish mixes, puddings, sauces and masses more ) and break foods. You will not see ‘Cargill’ on grocer shelves overtly labeled just like you will not see the other majority players, but it is’s there and much of what you eat comes from them.
Rest warranted 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 chance of losing their livelihood, and farmers in several other nations do not even desire them as neighbors. If it comes to their finances or yours – theirs will take precedence. Monsanto and Cargill each own 50% of a corporation that markets GM foods globally.
Monsanto eagerly pushes farmers into courtrooms where a small farmer has no possibility of winning, whether 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 proverb to describe what’s happening.
With these corporations holding the vast majority of our food supplywhat happens when they raise prices and demand more profits? We can do without fuel – but we will not do without food. Sadly, the headlights are approaching and American consumers don’t have a clue to move off the road.
Corporate America exists for one thing – Cash. They might give a token amount for charities but profit comes before anything. Lower costs drive the ‘reasons’ for GMO products, which the majority don’t want 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 may barter with you as little farmers will? Do you suspect they’ll feel sorry and say’here’s groceries until you get on your feet? Not going to happen – it cuts into their profit. Farmers have seen it – consumers don’t and are not aware of it.
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