Download Interview Transcript Download my FREE Podcast Video Link
Story at-a-glance
- The trend is for fewer but bigger firms increasing their power to control what we eat; at the time Howard wrote his book, four European firms controlled the global beer market; six firms controlled the global seed market; two firms controlled food distribution in the U.S.
- Monopolies benefit corporations — not the public — reinforcing the company’s power and political clout. Many corporate executives even served, and still serve, on federal advisory committees and global trade agreement working groups
- Two-thirds of the farm commodities sold in the U.S. came from just 100,000 farms, and these middle-to-large-scale farms just kept getting bigger, in part by the way government subsidies are doled out
Most of us have little to no idea how behind-the-scenes forces control the food we buy, and the depth of the corruption involved. Philip Howard, Ph.D., author of “Concentration and Power in the Food System: Who Controls What We Eat?,” studies food system changes, with an emphasis on visualizing these trends.1
“My motivation [for writing the book] was to uncover what’s going on, to help people understand who owns what and all the strategies these dominant firms use to further increase their power,” he says.
His work has been featured by many prominent media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post and Chicago Tribune. In 2024 he is teaches undergraduate and undergraduate courses in community, food and agriculture as well as a graduate course.
He’s also an associate professor in the department of community sustainability at Michigan State University, and holds a Ph.D. in rural sociology. His two main projects in 20242 are characterizing diversity in the food system, particularly in plant seeds/animal genetics, high-protein foods and alcoholic beverages, and “bridging information gaps between food system actors, including the use of ‘ecolabels.'”
Endgame: Global Monopolization
One fact that many don’t realize is just how few firms control the global food system, from seeds to supermarkets. As noted by Howard:
“The trend in most industries is for fewer and fewer firms to increase their power. One really dramatic example is the beer industry. Four firms headquartered in Europe brew about half the world’s beer. That’s going to go down to three very soon, because Anheuser-Busch InBev is acquiring SABMiller.
Even if you’re a very dominant firm, you’re caught up in this system where you have to get bigger or become acquired by your big competitors. But it’s resulting in less and less people making decisions about the food we eat. There’s even speculation that InBev is not increasing its sales enough, even with this acquisition, so they’re going to have to acquire a big soft drink firm, perhaps even Coke or Pepsi.”
With its $103 billion acquisition of SABMiller, InBev became one of the three largest food firms in the world. InBev also owns Anheuser-Busch, which produces Budweiser, one of the most well-known beer brands in the world. In some parts of the world, such as in Africa and Latin America, InBev has already established a monopoly.
Antitrust rules and regulations enacted by the federal government are meant to prevent these types of monopolies. In fact, when large corporations want to buy other large corporations, a rigorous evaluation process is required before they’re authorized to merge. So how is it that this kind of monopoly-building is still happening? Howard explains:
“In the early 1900s, there were a number of laws passed to prevent these trusts, these combinations that resulted in monopolies in these markets. That changed dramatically beginning in the 1980s. Reagan was elected. He directed the heads of federal agencies to take a very different view toward mergers and acquisitions.
At the same time, federal judges were being indoctrinated into the Chicago School of Economics. They got paid to go on these junkets to Arizona, Florida, places like that. They played golf. Then they attended these seminars where they were taught mergers and acquisitions that, unless they immediately raised prices for consumers, were good for everyone.
As a result of just one of those programs, by the early ’90s, two-thirds of federal judges had participated. It’s essentially impossible to win an antitrust case in the federal courts now.”
Monopolies Do Not Benefit the Public
The truth is, monopolies really only benefit the corporations in question, not the population at large. It merely reinforces the company’s power, including their political clout. Many multinational corporate executives even serve on federal advisory committees and global trade agreement working groups.
Some of these international trade deals are kept secret even from the U.S. Congress, yet executives from large multinational firms are present during the negotiations. When large companies are able to influence the very regulatory agencies that are chartered to regulate them, they’re able to circumvent the regulatory process, forming what is essentially a cartel.
“A good example is the seed industry. It was taken over by big chemical companies beginning in the 1980s. We got down to just six firms. Previously, there were over 30 firms. These big six chemical companies, which are also seed companies, have cross-licensing agreements for genetically engineered (GE) technologies.
The commodity farmers that want these GE traits, like herbicide resistance — the independent seed companies cannot access those technologies. They either become acquired by these firms or end up going out of business. Right now, it’s possible that those big six will be reduced to just three.
BASF … has gotten out of the seed sales. Bayer’s trying to acquire Monsanto, Dow and DuPont are planning to merge … [and] ChemChina, a Chinese-owned chemical company, is acquiring Syngenta.”
Seed Monopolies Created by Chemical Companies
Even after its buy-out by Bayer,3 Monsanto was the classic example of the revolving door between government and industry. ‘There are people who just go back and forth between Monsanto and the agencies that are supposed to be regulating that firm,’ Howard notes. Without a doubt, this influence is part of Monsanto’s success.
The patenting of seeds and the subsequent restrictions on seed have led to what is essentially a takeover of the farming industry by chemical companies. The patenting of seeds benefits these companies in multiple ways. Not only do farmers have to purchase new seed each year, since the patents do not allow for saving or sharing of seeds, these GE crops also demand certain chemicals to be used with them, which of course these companies also make and sell.
“Monsanto is using very strong intellectual property protections on seeds in the U.S. and trying to extend that model all over the world. With the trade agreements, they’re forcing other countries to change their laws to protect companies like Monsanto, rather than allowing farmers to save and replant seeds. In the U.S., some farmers have even gone to prison for saving seeds, not to mention the millions of dollars in fines,” Howard says.
There are many reasons to suspect GE seeds were developed to increase chemical sales, as most of the stated benefits of GE seeds have actually turned out to be false. As just one example, Monsanto insisted it was biologically impossible for weeds to develop resistance against glyphosate, yet by the time Howard wrote his book, resistant superweeds had already taken over more than 60 million acres of U.S. croplands.4
The chemical biotechnology industry’s answer was to develop crops resistant to more toxic herbicides, but anyone with half a brain should realize that this “solution” will only aggravate the problem, creating weeds resistant to these more potent toxins as well. Sooner or later, we have to get off the chemical treadmill or foods will be too toxic to eat even in the short term.
Despite Grave Concerns, Beneficial Changes Are Also Afoot
In his book, Howard explores the entire supply chain, from seed to farm, to processing and distribution to the retail market, looking at how things have changed over the years. For example, in 1937, there were nearly 6.8 million farmers in the U.S., which at that time had a population of about 100 million. Today, we have fewer than 2 million farmers, with a population of more than 325 million.5
What’s worse, an estimated two-thirds of the farm commodities sold in the U.S. come from just 100,000 farms, and these middle-to-large-scale farms just keep getting bigger. The reasons for this trend are manifold, but government subsidies play a significant role. About 85% of federal subsidies go to the top 10% of farms, which reinforces their advantages, allowing them to expand and buy out neighboring farms.
There are some very clear and real concerns about our food distribution system. But while the situation can seem depressing, beneficial changes are also occurring. As noted by Howard:
“There are a lot of efforts to resist these trends … [B]ig firms are getting bigger … because they have no other way to grow. Beer sales in the U.S., for example, are really leveled off, except for the craft brew segment. We’ve had this dramatic increase in the number of breweries in the U.S., thousands and thousands now.
Their percentage in sales is well over 10%. If you just look at the beer aisle in your supermarket, there’s a lot more choice than there was 10 or definitely 20 years ago. One response the big brewers have tried, just in the last few years, is buying up some of those craft breweries.
But the genie is out of the bottle. People have moved away from those macrobrews. They’re not increasing their sales at all — that’s why they’re having to look at other parts of the world for growth.
There are many [other] examples like [that] in other parts of the food system. Heritage breed turkeys, for example. The numbers have gone way up even though in the 2000s, there were less than 2,000 turkeys in the entire U.S. that weren’t broad-breasted white. People are creating more and more of these alternatives. It’s just hard to find them and support them.”
Needless to say, one alternative is to grow some of your own food. We cannot all grow all kinds of food or raise all of our own livestock, but most people can grow something. At present, I grow about half of all the food I eat in any given week. As noted by Howard:
“Even if you have no space, you can grow some sprouts, for example. You just become a little bit self-sufficient in that way. If you don’t have any space at all to even have a container garden, then you can make connections with local farmers.
There are more and more community-supported agriculture farms and cooperatives where farmers come together at a drop-off point once a month, and buy-ing clubs. It’s really encouraging to see that people are really fed up with the industrial food system and are finding all these alternatives and we’re creating more spaces for them to thrive.”
How Corporate Takeovers and Mergers Impact Food Quality
Howard discusses many interesting case samples in his book, including that of Silk Soy milk, which is a powerful illustration of how food quality is impacted when a small, integrity-based brand is acquired by a large conventional entity. Personally, I do not recommend drinking soy milk. It’s unhealthy for a number of very good reasons, its lectin content being a major detriment.
Nevertheless, Steve Demos, who started the Silk brand sincerely believed soy milk was a healthy product. One of the limitations he faced was breaking into conventional supermarkets, because they charge slotting fees to the tune of billions of dollars per year. To get a single product into a regional supermarket chain can cost tens of thousands of dollars. The way Demos was able to implement his vision was by approaching big firms like Coca-Cola.
One of the companies he secured funding from was Dean Foods. They paid the slotting fees to get Silk soy milk into the supermarkets. The brand grew exponentially, and at one point, Silk had over three-quarters of all soy milk sales, which is more or less a monopoly. The price Demos paid was losing control of his company to his investors. Dean Foods eventually acquired 100% of the company, and Demos was unable to block the takeover.
“Not surprisingly, Dean Foods reduced its commitment to organic ingredients. They reduced the commitment to sourcing North American soybeans. They started sourcing soybeans from China and Brazil. They went from a 100% organic firm to maybe 6% organic today,” Howard says.
Stonyfield is another example of a company whose founder was an idealistic and altruistic person dedicated to providing the best product possible, but who eventually lost control of the company in his effort to grow. In the process, the quality of the product was lowered as well.
“Stonyfield was an interesting case because Gary Hirshberg, the founder, had to pay off all his investors, his friends and family that helped him create this firm. He also wanted to make those products available to more consumers.
He spent a long time negotiating a buyout with Danone, the French yogurt company. But its contention was on increasing sales, so they had to water down some of their ideals, like their commitment to organic, to increase sales. Now, they’re very vulnerable. They could end up becoming a part of a foreign firm.”
Examples of Companies That Refused to Sell Out
On a more positive note, some firms have resisted tremendous buyout offers, refusing to sacrifice their ideals.
One example is Clif Bar. At the last minute, Gary Erickson walked away from a $60 million offer by Quaker Oats, a division of Pepsi, because he saw that many of the promises made early on in the negotiations were being reneged. He didn’t feel confident they would maintain the commitment to his ideals. So, Clif Bar is still independent, and the company is giving money to a number of environmental causes.
Another intriguing example is Eden Foods, which has held very high organic standards right from the start — so high, in fact, they refused to put the USDA organic label on their food, even though it was organic, because they thought the organic label had been compromised. According to Howard:
“They’re a firm that’s had a commitment to sourcing from local suppliers and not [using] a lot of synthetic processing aids. They were opposed to the watering down of organic processing standards to allow synthetics. They still don’t put the USDA organic label on their products. They were pretty fortunate.
They’ve been around so long — since the ’70s — that their integrity is well-known to a certain number of consumers. They were able to get into a distribution system. It’s very likely if they were trying to start out today, they would never make it. It’s unfortunate more people don’t know which companies are independent, companies like Nature’s Path and Bob’s Red Mill.
Bob actually hired someone specifically to fend off buyout offers. They would just tell people who inquired ‘no.’ They never even told Bob the amounts he was being offered. Bob’s Red Mill and Clif Bar have both gone into an employee stock ownership program rather than to just sell out to the highest bidder.”
Distribution Monopolies
The manufacturing and distribution parts of the supply chain are somewhat mysterious behind-the-scenes components of the food system that few people fully understand. First, the base ingredients have to be made, and then someone has to combine them and put them in a box. Oftentimes, different companies are hired to do certain steps of the process.
When you delegate these responsibilities to other companies, you can easily run into problems, even if they’re well-intentioned, as everyone is looking for ways to cut costs. Some ethically challenged companies may sell you subpar ingredients, for example. But even when the ingredients are high quality, the food is still processed, which affects the food’s nutritional value. Part of the solution is preparing your foods from scratch. Then you can bypass these hidden pitfalls.
Next, the food has to be distributed from the manufacturing facility to storage facilities and, ultimately, to stores. Howard explains some of the complexities involved, and the problem with monopolization in this area:
“You’re getting things from point A to point B, sometimes with refrigeration. We had a cooperative distribution system in the 1980s. We had dozens of cooperatively owned distributors across the U.S. that distributed organic and natural foods. But as the industry grew, they couldn’t keep up. They didn’t have the capital to buy more trucks and warehouses and so on.
A company called United Natural Foods swooped in and acquired the two largest remaining cooperative distributors back in 2002. They’re now publicly traded. Their main customer is Whole Foods. For the broader national distribution of foods, there’s Sysco. At just about any restaurant you go to, you will see a Sysco truck.
They have one major competitor — U.S. Foods. At the time I wrote the book, Sysco was planning to acquire U.S. Foods. Meaning, all of these people who pitted them against each other to get better deals weren’t going to have that option.
This is one of those things I wasn’t expecting, but it was so clear that there were only two firms at that scale that the U.S. government actually undid that acquisition. So, there are still two, although they both continue to acquire a number of other smaller distributors.”
Helpful Resources
Even though the facts are quite disheartening, there is something you, your family and friends can do to change this sad state of affairs. Remember, you have a very powerful resource — you can vote with your pocketbook, which is the ultimate arbiter of corporate behavior. Howard ends his book with resources you can use to help you make more educated choices, including the following:
Buycott.com has both a website and an app that allow you to vote with your wallet by learning a product’s history and ownership, and avoid companies that are being boycotted for various reasons, such as those using chocolate produced by child slaves, or those using genetically modified ingredients
More Information
To learn more, pick up a copy of Howard’s book, “Concentration and Power in the Food System: Who Controls What We Eat?” If you’re interested in more details, they’re all there. The take-home message is that you need to vote with your pocketbook and really make the commitment to eating real, unprocessed food. Ultimately, that’s how we change this corrupt and distorted food system.
As noted by Howard, it’s up to each and every one of us to find out who we are supporting with our hard-earned money. In a best-case, ideal-world scenario, everyone would start cutting down on processed foods. That’s really key, because if you do that, you’re not likely going to support a large corporation, particularly if you buy locally.
“We need to really start avoiding those big firms, these 10 firms that control one-third of food and beverage sales in the U.S. and be willing to spend more in some cases, if it means getting a higher-quality product, or using less of it, and supporting smaller and local and independent firms,” Howard says.
It’s important to realize we CAN shift the behavior of these corporations. They’re investor-controlled and investors want profit. If their profits go down, they have to respond to public pressure. This is how we can get many of the toxic additives out of our food supply, and how we will get GE ingredients out.
All you have to do is don’t buy those kinds of products. They can have all these elaborate systems set up and control all of the federal regulatory agencies, but if people aren’t buying, none of that matters. In addition to that:
“Many of these big firms receive enormous subsidies, direct and indirect. One of the ways we can change things, not only by seeking out and supporting alternatives, is by putting pressure on the government to end these big subsidies and level the playing field,” Howard says.
It is my sincere desire to provide readers of this site with the best unbiased information available, and a forum where it can be discussed openly, as our Founders intended. But it is not easy nor inexpensive to do so, especially when those who wish to prevent us from making the truth known, attack us without mercy on all fronts on a daily basis. So each time you visit the site, I would ask that you consider the value that you receive and have received from The Burning Platform and the community of which you are a vital part. I can't do it all alone, and I need your help and support to keep it alive. Please consider contributing an amount commensurate to the value that you receive from this site and community, or even by becoming a sustaining supporter through periodic contributions. [Burning Platform LLC - PO Box 1520 Kulpsville, PA 19443] or Paypal
-----------------------------------------------------
To donate via Stripe, click here.
-----------------------------------------------------
Use promo code ILMF2, and save up to 66% on all MyPillow purchases. (The Burning Platform benefits when you use this promo code.)
Excellent article. As I have said earlier, I have some thoughts on solutions, but it takes teamwork.
The market weeding out the weak is muh capitalism , bruh, plus they private corporations, they do what they want….reeeee
The so called free market sans protection for the under-capitalized is no free market at all.
BTW, I’m generally a heirloom seed guy, but any purple veggie, hybrid or GMO, is interesting to me. In particular this one.
*Apparently, as the thumbnail indicates, the Garden Fundamentals guy has went gape mouth soyjak , too…smh.
You do. You control what you eat, but you must take steps to extricate yourself from the system. It takes time and it takes effort and it means you need to alter the lifestyle you’ve grown accustomed to, but it is possible and it changes your life for the better.
No man can be free and simultaneously continue to suck at the teat of his oppressors.
Real freedom comes when you are able to provide the necessities of life for yourself rather than be dependent upon others. Think back to when you first left home. Imagine living with your parents into adulthood, to never doing more than chores around the house for their continued provision of all your needs, for the rest of your life. No real man would ever consider something like that but they are willing to pretend that the conditions in the modern economic and political world aren’t the same thing.
lol…what commie asshole would thumbs down this truism…smh.
I suspect that commie asshole would be me. And I explained why in my reply. You don’t tribe up (something even you just advocated) by feeding at the teat of the beast / oppressors, generation after generation, you do it by building one generation on another.
The thinking hardscrabble farmer is advocating is the thinking instilled by the oppressors, to keep the lower classes poor and powerless. And it seems to have worked.
I have no idea what you’re talking about….how you got HSF advocating for keeping the lower classes poor and oppressed via self-sufficiency is beyond me. Building one generation on another is a traditional clan i.e. tribe. Self sufficiency is not a detriment , but a plus to the clan. Everyone carries their own weight until they can’t and then we become our brothers’ keepers.
What I said was that the ptb have ingrained that into us to”be a man” we have to somehow go out and conquer the world by recreating what has already been done by those before us, which is exactly what he said, which makes the rich even more so (or creates others), instead of building on generational wealth like they do, by working as tribe.
Feel free to twist or read into it some more if you like.
And yet, how are we better off paying the beast to maintain another household, perpetually duplicating the previous generation’s efforts, if lucky enough, instead of building on what our past generations have built? You sure don’t see the rich throwing their children to the wolves to start over and over again every generation, making the rich richer.
I have been writing here for at least 15 years, how are you still unable to follow the thread I’ve been unspooling? Every year since 2019 we have opened our gates to anyone from TBP who wants to visit for the 4th of July to see for themselves what we’ve been able to do, as a family, to disengage from the matrix and become as self-sustaining as possible in the current era. Hundreds of people have taken us up on the offer and we’ve made more than a few long term friendships from those visits. Let them tell you if we walk the walk.
One more time, just in case you missed it.
Our former home was built by and inhabited by five generations of our family. My great-grandmother passed away in the same bedroom as her daughter, my grandmother, both surrounded by family. My mother passed in her bed surrounded by family. I gardened the same piece of ground my grandfather first tilled. My family is buried in the cemetery that overlooks that valley going back to 1703 and I visit it every time I return and bring our children along to see those graves and look at the names and make the associations with the photos and paintings we still have of our loved ones in our home today. While we are not unique in this connection to the past, we are certainly part of a very small minority who can trace their family history accurately for 13 generations on American soil.
We finally moved because NJ had become uninhabitable. We relocated to a demographically favorable environment because we saw the way things were headed in this country. Now our oldest son lives in a cottage on the property, and while one of them is currently attending college, our two younger children live in our home with us. We all work together, share the food we produce, and the energy we generate and we plan on passing the farm on to them to live on as they choose. When they are ready we will help build them their own home somewhere on the property if they so choose.
I advocate and support families remaining together, not moving apart, and forming dynastic inheritance of real wealth; land, skills, resources, community bonds, mutual support, libraries and family memorabilia that allows us to recall and revere those we never knew but are connected to by blood. I am not the typical Boomer in that I want to give everything to our children rather than spend any of it on myself.
You took a single sentence and formed an entire narrative that is completely false, but since I wasn’t clear, allow me to edit it properly for clarity.
Imagine living with your parents into adulthood, to never doing more than chores around the house for their continued provision of all your needs, for the rest of your life.
Let me try again.
Imagine being a burden rather than a asset to your parents into your adulthood and expecting them to carry the obligation of your sustenance for their entire lives rather than maturing into a helpmeet and eventually a replacement generation to care for them into their dotage.
Did that help?
My point again is that if you, as an adult, cannot provide the necessities of life, you are not fully mature, nor free, but rather a dependent on others, and a form of slave to that system.
I see a pattern forming here. It seems that everyone who strays from your world view gets a free complimentary shit sandwich.
I think YOU have been coasting on your reputation far too long and it’s made you fucking LAZY and arrogant.
I see a pattern forming here. It seems that everyone who strays from your world view gets a free complimentary shit sandwich.
It would certainly appear that way, wouldn’t it?
A lot of people confuse confidence with arrogance because they so infrequently encounter the former and the latter is ubiquitous and synonyms are the scourge of the illiterate.
The real question should be, why is providing your own sustenance beneath you? Why do you want to simultaneously “fix the world” but not change any of your own behaviors that allowed it to come to this?
Sisyphus it is…
Whatevs, Icarus.
Wait, I thought he said he (we) couldn’t fix the world, or did he change his mind again? It certainly isn’t unlike him to contradict himself from one post to the next.
You imply disparity where none exists.
Own your own ignorance on the topic.
You, as an individual, cannot fix the world in totality.
You, as an individual can fix yourself, which is the first step in setting the example that leads others to emulate your effort, thus leading to the kind of world you’d prefer.
None of this is original, the Stoics were on to this thousands of years ago.
It is, to some people, simple and obtainable, with no more effort required than you’d put into despair.
For others, obviously, it is impossible because they do not want to change themselves, but rather have the world change to accommodate them.
Like they say, you can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink.
Certainly we can’t fix the whole world of all its problems, but there is always room for improvement, and I’d argue (as I have) that we have changed it for the better.
It is ubiquitous, indeed.
If one intends to “fix the world”, best start with yourself.
Your Psycho. This is one of best posts ever written on TBP. HSF’s love of life, freedom, and family shines through.
I thank the Lord for both of you, because I enjoyed the response he provoked.
I am still have some growing up to do, myself.
Very powerful post. Some of your best writing. Many thanks and blessings.
Like flash you are reading way more in what I said. I guess then it was a matter of do as I say, and not do as I do. Few people are able to provide the necessities of life. It has always been a team effort. Even more so today.
And that’s what families are for.
See, we do agree. You might have lead with that.
My ability to communicate effectively in writing is not what it once was.
No one has ever accused me that mine ever was.
We the People purportedly elect our representatives, yet only the corporate is ever granted an audience on creating laws and policy that affect us all. The only time one of the hoi polloi is trotted out as representative of We the People is when a politician needs a political prop, such as a gold star family, the family of a victim of illegal alien invasion or some silly bitch that’s sad because she can’t kill her baby with ease.
As I’ve said many times…Tribe up or die. The criminals in congress don’t work for us and never did. Turning back to the land is how we survive the evitable collapse of Clown World’s fake and gay ” free market”
And there it is.
Mr. Corporate, through his lobbyists, writes the laws. The “sponsors” of the bills are merely figureheads who probably don’t know, or care, what’s in it.
I have no doubt that the US government is a “representative’ government, but it doesn’t represent the American people and I see no evidence it ever has.
As per practiced in Vietnam, rural pacification is the game plan and vile Uncle Schlomo is extremely busy importing the illegal alien army needed to do this dirty deed.
What many normies don’t understand is that a certain type of people really enjoy killing. In the past, I’ve known a few of this type personally and I’m sure there are many such type amongst the flood of human refuse now pouring across our borders. What will they be offered to cleanse the countryside ?
People that enjoy killing are defective.
Recently found out that Garden of Life was bought by Nestle, so there goes that!
I’m glad someone is keeping their eye on Nestle. Those are some evil fuckers.
Many of the non-traditional supplement makers and food makers have been brought up by BigAgriculture, etc. No surprise there … but most of it goes unnoticed because it’s unreported.
Unfortunately, though, one of the first things that happens is a change in the ingredients list … and not for our benefit.
Most of the supplement companies have been bought out by evil fuckers, so be careful. It is an obvious attack vector and the target equally obvious.
Well, I’ve suggested that companies should not be allowed to get larger than a certain size but no one seems to like that idea.
I don’t think size is the greatest issue. It’s their access (i.e. control of) to Congress via campaign cash and ability to funnel money to family that attracts all the criminals to Congress. Remove the cash incentive and the job of congressman becomes more of a duty than a lucrative career.
https://thefederalist.com/2024/03/08/complaint-whitehouse-was-committing-the-ethics-violations-he-projected-onto-supreme-court-justices/
Another POS fake and gay shit….but so conservative….reeee
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2023/04/28/chief-justice-john-roberts-wife-made-over-10-million-as-legal-consultant-report-says/?sh=1f85c80e1e9a
Wondering if Jane knows why John flew with Epstein?
With size comes power, no matter the system.
Funny how ‘bug farms’ never catch fire.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/massive-fire-engulfs-us-chicken-farm-containment-expected-to-last-days/ss-BB1jCSIF?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=53047fd6aeed4127b829e03c311dd2af&ei=48
Who controls what we eat?!?
The same people who control what you drink, breathe and think.
Pretty good case for disbanding the EPA, ain’t it?
Seems to me the world didn’t go completely bat shit crazy until they started spraying their shit in the skies world wide. How long does it take to poison an entire planetary atmosphere? Because they’ve been at it since at least the 1990’s.
Just sayin’.
Do heavy metals affect brain chemistry?
They’ve been doing it since at least the early-1950s …
FIFY …
Not at scale. Those were the preliminary beta tests. This is an “Operation”.
What is missing from all these conversations is God. Nobody believes they were created. They believe the lies that we came from apes. Or they believe in false Gods. A lot of self-identified Christians believe in one or both of those myths.
When there is no God, then what is there besides profit and personal gain? Is it any wonder that these corporations find no shortages of the damned who will do their bidding?
What if we are all non-omnipotent gods?
All connected to the godhead via the interconnected life force.
In that scenario, hurting another “human” would by default, be harming ourself.
And helping other humans to accomplish good, is helping ourselves.
Think about it.
All of sudden every selfish act, is a destructive act,
And every generous act is constructive.
If we are all “gods” does not that lend a heavier gravitas on our choices of actions and behaviors?
We have no right to harm our fellow “man”, other than to stop them from harming others or the planet.
The sin concept already covers that. Scripture says we are gods with the emphasis on the little g. Jesus quotes it in the NT. But the first commandment says to have no other God than the one true God. The 11th commandment is to love God with all your heart, strength, mind, and soul. Jesus says if we love Him we will Keep His commands. The impossibility of this is why we need Jesus and why God is going to destroy this world and make a new one without sin.
Modern maxim:
The further away from food production one is on the tree,
The more vulnerable one is to being pruned.
When Farmer Bill isn’t busy tending to his mosquitoes he’s out buying large chunks of farm land-he’s not about to play second fiddle to the Chinese in the land department.
Mercola can admit when he is wrong. I give him credit for that. I really don’t know that he is wrong though. Now he is promoting high carb. The wind is blowing that way, now…or is it psyence?