Conservative politicians and Republicans overwhelminly support corporate agriculture over small, family farms, but is this the best way to ensure food security?
Vegetables travel thousands of miles before they are purchased by the end user. Livestock is concentrated on large 'finishing' lots in centralized locations. Isn't this a huge gap in our national security? Wouldn't thousands of local farmers raising food for local markets minimize threats to our food supply better than large corporations concentrating all of our food into central locations?
It would seem that diversifying the supply chain would be in our national interest, yet Republican politicians always defer to the likes of Monsanto and Carghill while they overrun family farms. Do Conservative voters agree with this policy, or do you believe that small, local, family farms ensure greater security to the nation?
2007-08-04 17:18:25 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
A healthy economy needs both.
2007-08-04 17:44:54 · answer #1 · answered by Caninelegion 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Family farmers don't contribute bribes like the corporations do. And Democrats and Republicans go where the money is. There are very few conservative politicians by the way. Most of them are Libertarian.
2007-08-04 17:40:30 · answer #2 · answered by John himself 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
There are good things about both corporate and family farms. I believe government should stay completely out of the picture and allow people to try either approach without government interference.
The last thing we need are bureaucrats in Washington deciding how our food should be grown. That seems way too close to communism and violates that quaint concept called liberty.
2007-08-04 17:33:04 · answer #3 · answered by Bryan Kingsford 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
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2016-10-09 06:03:41 · answer #4 · answered by hyler 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh NO!! They LOVE Agribusiness!
They hate the American way and the family farmer,
see how much they love Reagan?
They don't care how many family farmers committed suicide over the past 30 years.
They don't care about Satanic DNA, genetic manipulation, "patent" crime, animal torture on a massive scale, the USDA&FDA supposed government oversight colluding with sickening and filthy meat packing plants, industrial chemicals poured into our foods, lactating stimulants and bovine antibiotics (producing PUSS IN YOUR MILK) and sloppy slaughter houses using radiation attempting to kill the bacteria in the cow manure in your ground beef.
What would they care or know about anything at all?
2007-08-04 17:20:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
That depends entirely on the family farm location as opposed to the large corporate farm. It's different, despite what you think.
2007-08-04 17:24:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
neocons - big business. real conservatives - family farms.
2007-08-04 17:29:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Why do you want to stem the progress?
2007-08-04 17:21:11 · answer #8 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋