China Stole the Farm

Michael Olson’s Food Chain Radio Show #1284

This Poll is closed!!

Do you think China stole America’s farm, or did America give China its Farm?

China was given the farm

China stole the farm

*

81%

18%

Listen Now…

GUEST: Chris Bennet, Editor, Farm Journal Author, While America Slept, China Stole the Farm

With 1.4 billion hungry people to be fed, the opening of China that began in 1972 was to have been a monumental win for American agriculture.  And in fact, China is still the world’s top importer of food, which makes some American farmers very happy.

Michael Olson Food Chain Radio – China Stole the Farm

But if American agriculture is happy selling food to China, China is not happy in being dependent on America’s food.  Evidence suggests that China is doing everything in its power to end its dependency on imported food, and that includes taking America’s technology.

In 2011, the U.S. Director for the Beijing Da Bei Nong Technology Group, Mo Hei Long, was twice caught crawling through the corn rows of the Midwest with pockets full of Monsanto and Pioneer seed corn.   These creepy crawls through the corn rows awakened the curiosity of the FBI, which discovered that Hei Long had been sending seeds to relatives in China for at least five years.

China’s theft of America’s ag technology now takes place on an industrial scale, with no secret being left un-stolen.  And yet many of those secrets were not stolen, but simply given away.

A Washington apple farmer told me the story of how a group of China’s ag officials were given a tour of the state’s apple farms and processing facilities, and how a few years later China dominated the world’s market for apple juice.  The same was true for other high-value specialty crops, like garlic.

The transformation of Chinese agriculture over the past few decades leads us to ask:

Leave Comment Below: Did China steal our farm, or did we give China our farm?

Tune in here, for the syndicated Michael Olson Food Chain Radio Show #1284 August 14, 2021 Saturday 9AM Pacific

Take the 2X2 Pledge

“Together, we can eat our way to economic security and personal freedom, and it won’t cost a dime and it will be so easy it will make you blush!”

Michael Olson’s Three Laws of the Food Chain

#1 Agriculture is the foundation upon which we build all our sand castles.

#2 The farther we go from the source of our food, the less control we have over what’s in that food.

#3 Cheap food isn’t!       READ MORE