Comments on: Family-farm advocates call for U.S. to ‘bust up big ag’

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:00:32 +0000

here’s an idear.

pass a law that no farming entity (business or individual) can receive any federal government subsidies, loans or assistance with an income of $0 or larger or SMALLER.

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Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:17:55 +0000

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By: ZNOFOB

ZNOFOB — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:12:29 +0000

Government intrusion onto market forces and they call it free market.

USDA is the longer arm of Monsanto, Inc. Try to buy non-GMO seeds somewhere else. Go ahead. Try.

Farmers are being mashed out, like a stale cigarette butt in a glass ashtray. Big ag is not friendly business to farmers, much less to PEOPLE. They feed us with genetically modified trash, polluting the world with genetically modified monster crops. Where does that extra genetic material go when the bees pollenate the GMO corn next to a natural corn crop? Hmmm?

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:06:50 +0000

Hey small farmers,

Know who your biggest allies would be in doing this?

Liberals! Progressives!!!. Just imagine the powerful combination of farm reformers and progressives.

If you ever wake up and smell the coffee, let us know. We’ve been in favor of breaking up business conglomerates since Teddy Roosevelt was President.

But maybe you’d rather keep on believing what mega-millionaires like Limbaugh and Beck keep telling you. Look at every Republican Administration since the Civil War, and you’ll see a severe farm depression. Coolidge, Hoover, Eisenhower, Reagan, both Bushes.

They aren’t your friends, they play you for fools.

By: LYN MCLAURIN

LYN MCLAURIN — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:41:46 +0000

I agree the food is not so good for us and wonder if anyone has done research on how this “new” food could be causing the obseity problem in America. Perhaps because nutrition is missing in today’s food, we eat more and more because our bodies are not receiving the nutrition needed which leaves us continually thinking we are hungry. It becomes a vicious cycle. Just saying.

By: bud dingler

bud dingler — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:38:11 +0000

here’s an idear.

pass a law that no farming entity (business or individual) can receive any federal government subsidies, loans or assistance with an income of 250K or larger.

By: Dave Mowers

Dave Mowers — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:47:34 +0000

They stay just under 50% of the market share so they will never be prosecuted under antitrust laws. The laws are outdated anyway they should use the original corporation laws established which mandated that no State-issued corporation could cross State lines and conduct business in another State unless they hold a market share of 5% or more. Then, any company able to do business in multiple States should be limited in those additional States they operate in to a maximum of 5% market share per State. Each State should have its’ own commission overseeing both industry and consumer complaints divided into one-third publicly appointed officials, one-third elected officials and one-third industry. So that no one party can dominate the debates or control the parameters of debate and creation of laws. If they do not try something new large companies like Monsanto who must increase profits every quarter will eventually as they are now degrade American food production in the pursuit of company bonuses and shareholder profits. Anyone interested in this topic should check out the documentary FoodInc.