Market Farming

["jay gee" <jgj23 AT mindspring.com>]

Rick Williams wrote in part:

>>>>
 You have to show that the consumer is being hurt folks. You can not just
 unilaterally invoke the law because you want to make people feel good at
 someone else's expense. They have never been able to make the case of the
 consumer being affected negatively.
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The easiest way to tell whether or not U.S. consumers are
being hurt is to look at their statistical obesity.  In spite of
arguments about "free will" and "free markets" the reality
is that large agricultural interests (grains, meat processing,
feedlot operators and food processors) have corrupted the
political processes in their favor by watering down any law
that reigns them in, or by competing illegally to eliminate
serious competition at the commodity buying or retail selling level.

Have you ever wondered why serious medical research into
the logic behind the Atkins Diet has never been conducted
by the NIH, or why the NIH started promoting pastas and
low fat diets in spite of conflicting evidence that an abundance
of starch in the diet leads to obesity?  It about politics, that
process you so thoroughly endorse.

A trip to the archives of the FTC or the Justice Department
will reward you with repeated references of names such as
Cargill and Archer-Daniels-Midland (now ADM) and other
names you will recognize. 

I recall also that a number of ADM executives were actually
sent to prison for their transgressions.  Why?  Because it
is the way they do business!

>>>>
 I will point it out again, that in order to do many of the things that
 people claim they want changed, you first will have to change the U.S.
 Constitution to make it legal. That has not been done yet.
<<<<

Don't be surprised if some major amendments to the
Consitituion come about during your lifetime, or those
of your children.  As some say, "The night is still young."


Jay Gee
not a farmer -- but interested in farming