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To: MissAmericanPie
I believe it, I have suspected some of these guys have designs on our food supply.

The United States is a net food importing nation. We used to "feed the world". Now Lloyd Bensten leads a consortium of investors in Mexico. Cattle come from Pakistan into Argentina, into Mexico, into the US under NAFTA, and because it is butchered here it's called American beef. The meat packers (there are now only eight) have the political muscle to prevent domestic labeling. Tyson is moving operations to South America and going into aquaculture big time. Now because of ocean trawlers from other nations, we are regulating our own domestic private fishing fleet out of existence, all on "environmental" grounds.

As long as the food is still at Safeway there's nary a peep. The integrity of the product is seldom questioned. What guarantees that trans-shipment security? The US military. Can we really do that fighting a global battle? If there is a domestic crisis, where will you run? Are you expecting a farmer or rancher to be there? No one askes these questions, yet isn't domestic production capacity a part of civil defense?

I'm worried for our nation, and it isn't some paranoid fantasy to suggest that there are many who do mean us ill. So why aren't we addressing these questions?

44 posted on 07/06/2002 10:17:01 PM PDT by Carry_Okie
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To: Carry_Okie
When government begins to tell you to wear seat belts, not to smoke, what to eat, what you can't say, and demands your bank keep an eye on you, nothing is paranoid anymore.

I tell myself it is because it is meant to be, biblically speaking. That time pre-anti Christ, where things are being set up so that not only are you told what you can buy, but if you can buy. It seems to be happening ever faster now per Agenda 21.

45 posted on 07/07/2002 6:04:11 PM PDT by MissAmericanPie
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To: Carry_Okie
Interesting perspective; and one thing that is worrisome to me is the continuing loss of top farmland to development.

We can't get the toothpaste back in the tube and grow crops on paved over and built up land if by chance we suddenly need it.

It is something to think about anyways.

46 posted on 07/07/2002 6:09:00 PM PDT by Glutton
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