Reply #77: ADM, ConAgra, Monsanto have a lot of time, money, and political power [View All]

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so I'm not going to rule out world domination right now.

I remember reading a few articles about how the US is making it a condition of food aid that the third world (where subsitence farming is critical) accepts GMO crops.

By the way, all over Africa, subsistence maize farming feeds many many people, and it's more producting than industrial farming.

And people don't subsistence farm because buying food is cheap.

I thinik I read that retail food prices have gone up something like 25% in the last ten years, but small farmers are going out of business. All those profits being made are going to huge conglomerates figuring out how to make more money, and the prices will continue to go up, eating up more of people's disposable income. Those businesses are going to squeeze the pips until they squeak.

Cuba (where they now grow more than half their food in and around cities) and Africa has proven that, when the pips squeak, you can always turn to subsistence farming. Well, when the pips start squeaking in the US because of super high retail food prices, we won't be able to turn to subsistence farming because those same companies squeazing you at the supermarket are going to squeeze you in your neighbornood farms, because they'll control the IP rights, the tied chemical sprays, and the seeds as well.

But I'm sure I'm not telling you anything you don't already know.

I you sure you want to keep pushing into stating these truths? This isn't helping you.