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Who would of thought that survival living would be a reality in America?

We in America are spoil ed. We have so many choice s at the grocer that it is beyond the imagination that food won’t be there. Though there are many right here in the united states who retire to bed hungry on a constant basis, the true food lack s which have sparked riots in other state s have therefore far escaped the United States. It is not wise to think we are immune forever.

Wendell Berry mention ed in his book ‘The Unsettling of America’ 31 years ago that food was too important to be used as a weapon. People have ignored that concept for three decade s 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 pair hundred cows and maintain their lifestyl e. It looked the other way again when small hog farmers were buried under 9 cent hogs, a n amount that meant ham alone brought twice what the whol e pig cost. Some farmers gave hogs away as it would cost them to sell or keep them.

This will eliminate many alternatives for our food. While we see now that with oil thos e who have it can, will, and do dictate the price folks do no t see the flashing neon sign that our food supply is in an identical scenario. Indeed, c lient s are for the most part so oblivious of it that they continue to buy on cost, generating cash for the scattering of co mpany 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 the world over- had an 86% profit increase.

Most patron s have n’t a clue what some ingredients in their products tru ly are.
for instanc e, 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 big gest processors of oil seed, ADM produces soybean powder and meal for human and animal use. Extract ed from that is a crude oil used not only for e di ble oils, vegetable oils and lecithin, but also for commercial oil, biodiesel, and polymers.

Cargill – enjoying record profits – has its hands in baked product s, cereals, beverage s from alcohol to alcohol-free drinks to fruit drinks, candy and chocolate, dairy, health and organic ( think sports drinks, vitamins ), beef and birds, pharmaceuticals, prepared foods ( seasoning s, jams/jellies, side and main dish mixes, puddings, sauces and much more ) and brea k foods. You w on’t see ‘Cargill’ on grocer y store shelves open ly labeled just like you w on’t see the other majority players, but it ’s’s there and much of what you eat comes from them.

Rest assur ed when it comes to maintaining those record profits that they are going to 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 numerous other countrie s do not even desire them as neighbors. If it comes to their finances or yours – theirs will take domina nce. Monsanto and Cargill each own half of a n organization that markets genetically engineered foods around the planet.

Monsanto eagerly pushes farmers into courtrooms where a tiny farmer has no likelihood of winning, whether or not they have ever planted their seed. One farmer was held responsi ble for planting their genetic altered seed on land he did no t even own – which made no difference in the courtroom. Absolut e power corrupts ful ly is a n appropriat e adage to describe what’s happening.

With these companie s holding the vast majority of our food supplywhat occurs when they raise prices and demand more profits? We will do without fuel – but we will no t do without food. Unfortunate ly, the headlights are approaching and American purchas ers don’t have a n idea 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 do not want to eat and farmers do not 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 suspect they ‘ll feel sorry and say’here’s groceries til l you get on your feet? Not going to occur- it cuts into their profit. Farmers have seen it – consumer s don’t and are ignorant of it.

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