How the Federal Government Seeks to Control Our Food Supply

This pretense to control all food production for health and safety is reminiscent of the argument that gain-of-function research used to create the COVID-19 virus was motivated not for bioweapons research but to "Prevent a pandemic." Writer Wendell Berry has been warning for decades that government agencies and academic bigshots conspire to destroy farms in the name of helping them.

The federal government, eagerly helped by the Vermont Agency of Agriculture Food and Markets, seeks to implant microchips in all livestock, beginning with dairy cows.

The pretended purpose of tracking safety is not served by imposing these requirements on small producers and on-farm slaughter operations, the businesses that are most thriving even before COVID, but which are the hardest for the federal government to track.

A reliable chain of custody is important to farmers, retailers and consumers because it ensures accountability to label claims the farmer may be making on food products derived from livestock, such as 'grass fed' or 'organic.

This is revealing - the government seeks to implement laws that will severely undermine small-scale farming, and uses as justification that it must track organic bona fides.

A fatcat government agency requiring farmers to spend thousands of dollars for their tracking technology because it is important to the farmers and consumers: the opposite is the case.

American history very clearly shows that small farms were never to be the province of federal government control, yet the federal government has striven for a hundred years to do exactly that, using state agencies and ever-growing legislation that increase costs for small producers while protecting market share for Smithfield Foods and Cargill Corporation. 

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