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

We in America are spoiled.  We have so many decisions at the grocer that it is outside 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 consistent basis, the true food deficits which have sparked riots in other countries have therefore far escaped the USA.It is not wise to think we are immune forever.  

Wendell Berry mentioned in his book ‘The Unsettling of America’ 31 years back that food was too important to be used as a weapon.  People have ignored that idea for three decades 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 lifestyle.  It looked the other way again when small hog farmers were buried under 9 cent hogs, an amount that meant ham alone brought twice what the entire pig cost.  Some farmers gave hogs away as it would cost them to sell or keep them.  

This eliminated many alternatives for our food.  While we see now that with oil people who have it can, will, and do dictate the price folk do not see the flashing neon sign that our food supply is in the same scenario.  Indeed, clients are for the most part so ignorant of it that they continue to get on cost, generating income for the few 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 actually are.  
for instance, sorbitol is a hydrogenated sugar alcohol derived from corn, which is used in sugarless gums and candy, as well as being an ingredient in polyurethane.  

As one of the largest 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 edible oils, plant oils and lecithin, but also for industrial oil, biodiesel, and polymers.  

Cargill – enjoying record profits – has its hands in baked products, cereals, beverages from alcohol to soft drinks to fruit drinks, candy and chocolate, dairy, health and organic ( think sports drinks, vitamins ), beef and birds, pharmaceuticals, prepared foods ( seasonings, jams/jellies, side and main dish mixes, puddings, sauces and masses more ) and snack foods.  You won’t see ‘Cargill’ on grocer shelves brazenly labeled just like you won’t see the other majority players, but it’s’s there and much of what you eat comes from them.  

Rest guaranteed 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 numerous other countries do not even need them as neighbors.  If it comes to their finances or yours – theirs will take precedence.  Monsanto and Cargill each own 50% of a company that markets genetically engineered foods around the planet.  

Monsanto eagerly pushes farmers into courtrooms where a tiny farmer has no likelihood 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.  Comprehensive power corrupts totally is an acceptable adage to describe what’s happening.  

With these corporations holding the vast majority of our food supplywhat takes place when they raise prices and demand more profits?  We can do without fuel – but we can’t do without food.  Unfortunately, the headlights are approaching and American purchasers don’t have any idea to move off the road.  

Corporate America exists for one thing – Money.  They would give a token amount for charities but profit comes before anything.  Lower costs drive the ‘reasons’ for GMO products, which the majority don’t need to eat and farmers do not want near their fields.  

If your checkbook is drained and they’re showing record profits do you think they’ll barter with you as tiny farmers will?  Do you think they will feel sorry and say’here’s groceries until you get on your feet?  Not going to occur – it cuts into their profit.  Farmers have seen it – patrons don’t and are unaware of it.

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