We are too fat, that’s for sure. I’m talking in the United States of course. We just love to eat! All that food, packs on the pounds, getting ready for hard times. It works just like it’s supposed to. Gather thy nuts, and store them for winter, is the rallying call. But hard times don’t always follow a great harvest. In the United States, hard times, are a blip in the statistics. We’re in a recession, they keep touting. But few if any, miss a meal.
Pay attention! In the United States we have the best damn God-fearing, hard-working farmers, in the world. They grow millions of bushels of everything! Anything that will grow, they grow! They aren’t just in it for the money, no, these folks are in it to watch the crops grow. They are already rich; in all the real ways a person can be rich. They don’t need a balance sheet to tell them anything but can I do it again next year. Can I plant more?
This attitude and need to fulfill Gods promise, guides their thoughts and actions, and here’s what that produces; bountiful fields of food, an unbelievable feeling of satisfaction, sweat, labor, and dropping onto the bed at night, fulfilled and tired, only to get up the next morning and do it all over again.
Lots of people have written and already know what I just wrote, but that is the beginning of the coming problem.
Our farmers, grow abundant crops, regardless if the supply will reduce the profit. As long as the profit lets them, they will keep growing and expanding, having their wealth in buildings and machines, rather than in their bank account. They bet it all every season.
The Corporate farms, have to keep up with that spirit, for now, but continue to grow and buy out the old tired farmers, that don’t have kin to pass the farm down too. The corporations have to follow the current rules to keep up, but they are in it for the money, not the fun! Eventually, the corporations will work all the God and sweat out of the land. They will only exist for the profit. the day will come, when our food supply is tightened, just to cause a supply and demand market, to better fill their pockets.
That heaping pile of peas on your plate, that big loaf of bread, will get smaller and smaller and cost more and more, thinning Americans in the process. Some will even show it to be good.
We shouldn’t trade our God fearing, hardworking, guardians of our land and our future, to a handful of corporations, destined to starve us out for their profit margin.
You’ve been warned!
Support your local farmer and his market.