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Food Chain Radio Show #1234
Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist
Up Against Goliath III: The Bullying
Guests: Amanda Hitt, Director of Government Accountability Project’s Food Integrity Campaign & Judith McGeary, Executive Director Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance
We all saw what happened because it happened right before each and everyone one of us.
Michael Olson Food Chain Radio – Up Against Goliath III: The Bullying – How does big business bully small business out of business?
The brightest medical minds in the world told us that millions of us were going to die from contracting the Made-In-China corona virus. And so our government ordered us to shelter in place, and then ordered all non-essential businesses to close.
Which businesses were considered to be essential and which were not?
What I saw when I went shopping for a few tomato plants was that my favorite local garden stores had been closed for being non-essential, while the big box stores were wide open with people standing in line to give them money.
And so what I think I saw was that government has determined that big business is essential, and small business is non-essential. Now, that is just an opinion from one man who was out looking for tomato plants, so there is a lot of room for error!
But to get specific about what is essential and what is non-essential, let’s talk about how we have come to feed ourselves.
It wasn’t too long ago, like about the span of one long-living person’s lifetime, that most all of us lived on farms and grew our own food, or traded with farmers who grew food for us. And most of us butchered our own chickens because there was no one to butcher them for us.
But now most all of us buy our chickens from one or two or three corporations that control most all of the chickens now being eaten in the United States. And that leads us to ask, how does big business bully small business out of business?
Leave a comment below: Do you believe big business bullies small business out of business?
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