7/3/24

"Blessings of liberty" would undermine food safety, forest health

After the last farm bill was enacted in 2018 Trump era Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue gave away a pool of cash in the 2019 Market Facilitation Program (MFP) payments aimed at buying off welfare farmers.

So today, agriculture is the leading source of pollution in the waters of the United States and the latest round of flooding in farm country has just made it worse. Desertification driven by livestock grazing and industrial agriculture has turned parts of the high plains into scorched earth. Moral hazard is the flip side of self-reliance and the heavily subsidized industry knows emergency declarations will provide bailouts for those who choose risk because Republican welfare ranchers are the real ecoterrorists who hate subsidies unless they benefit from them.

The American Farm Bureau Federation is notorious for conflicts of interest and denying the human effects on a warming climate while lobbying extensively for crop insurance in the federal farm bill and against WOTUS rules while ag bankers and biochemical cartels enslave landowners.

Real conservatives at the Heritage Foundation have called for subsidy reform for decades yet both Kristi Noem and Mike Rounds have taken over $5 million in federal handouts because South Dakota truly is a perpetual welfare state and a permanent disaster area.  
According to Project 2025, a second Trump White House–and by extension, an already Trump-loving Congress–should enact a wholesale overhaul of the 2018 Farm Bill and its implementing agency, the 163-year-old U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Continued foot dragging by today’s House leadership to even schedule a Farm Bill vote and a long-stalled Senate already has Washington discussing another extension of the 2018 law until after–you guessed it–January 2025. [Alan Guebert: Farm Bill politics 2024 lean toward Project 2025]
South Dakota's Earth hating congressional delegation frequently calls for a socialized Black Hills timber industry to placate Hulett, Wyoming-based donor, Neiman Enterprises while spouting the "blessings of liberty." In the ag portion of the Project 2025 text is an outline for unlimited corporate access to national forests despite a timber glut and sawmill closures. 

But now that the Supreme Court of the United States has given President Biden ultimate power over the US Constitution POTUS has the opportunity to order anything he wants including the imprisonment of those who would undermine the solidarity of the food chain. 

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