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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@gilanet.com>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Monitoring Corporate Agribusiness
  • Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 21:29:39 -0600


THE
AGRIBUSINESS
EXAMINER
July 7, 2003, Issue #266
Monitoring Corporate Agribusiness
>From a Public Interest Perspective EDITOR\PUBLISHER; A.V. Krebs
E-MAIL: avkrebs@earthlink.net
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FUTURE PLANNING IN
CORPORATE AGRIBUSINESS "Although there are a number of food consumer groups
and a variety of special-interest groups and organizations in rural America,
none is really involved in anything that resembles long-term planning....Most
of
the concerns of farm organizations tend to be of a short-term nature. If
the      political process is not capable of conducting long-term planning
for the
food system, or for rural areas, where will that planning be done? "The only
organizations in which long-term planning is being conducted regarding the
food system are those large organizations which are currently gaining control
of
the food system in the U.S. and increasingly in the world." --- Professor
William Heffernan, University of Missouri Rural Sociologist
  A STATE PLANNED VS.
CORPORATE PLANNED ECONOMY "When fewer and fewer individuals make more and
more of the economic decisions, whether those individuals are in government or
big business, the result is anti-competitive, inefficient and harmful to the
society as a whole; when more and more individuals make more and more of the
economic decisions, the result is more competitive and more efficient and
beneficial to the society as a whole. There is an even great irony in the
principal
advocates of centralized economic planning --- the Soviet Union and Eastern
European countries --- are abandoning it as an economic failure, at the very
time
American industries . . . are becoming more and more centrally planned by
those few firms with greater and greater economic power resulting from ever
increasing industry concentration." --- Dr. John Helmuth, former Adjunct
Associate
Professor and Assistant Director, Center for Agriculture and Rural
Development,
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
 




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