Americans Need to Regain Control of Food Production - Down with Government/ Corporate Food Fascism and Up with Community Based Food Democracy.Say NO to Factory Farms!
Minnesota farmer decries consolidation of seed industry at Iowa Town Hall.
'Fred Dowered, a Minnesota farmer, told the audience that when he began farming 34 years ago his state had 50 seed companies. Now, however, there are only four.
“When there were 50 seed companies, the price of seed corn was held to its own. Now they just let it go rampant,” he said.
That’s a situation that Jim Kalbach, an Adair Couty grain farmer, knows all too well.
“Monsanto soybean seed was $31 a bag last year. Now they jumped it up one third to $41 a bag — in one year,” he said. “That’s highway robbery.”
Many of the men and women in the audience also took exception to the belief that the U.S. food supply boasts the most healthy and inexpensive food in the world.
“The two things we are going to hear over and over on Friday is that we’ve got the cheapest and safest food supply in the world. Both of these statements are damn lies” said Gary Klicker, a southern Iowa producer that can trace his family’s agricultural roots to 1666.
Klicker believes that taxpayers will be out “billions if not trillions” of dollars cleaning up rivers, nourishing soil and dealing with abandoned animal confinement facilities.'
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