The Plot Thickens
The Plot to End Farming - Part 2
This is the 2nd post on the April 1, 2024 session of the IPAK-EDU Director’s Science Webinar featuring the work of Alexis Baden-Mayer. You can find Part 1 here and Part 3 is here.
The April 1, 2024 session of the IPAK-EDU Director’s Science Webinar featured the research of Alexis Baden-Mayer. The research she presented is both eye-opening and compelling, woven around a timeline of people and organizations, stretching back from the end of the 19th century to the present.
It isn’t hard to observe that we tend to get exposed to history in a cartoon-like, piecemeal fashion.
Little chunks processed into memorable bites, too often, like junk food. An apt comparison that springs to mind is a Happy Meal.
If consumed regularly, the result is a poverty of understanding, or put simply—indoctrination.
The history bites that people typically consume can seem innocuous until particular threads and strands get woven together. This is where a timeline can help to illustrate themes and contextual connections.
Without giving away the details, here are some tasty tidbits…
One of the revelations in Alexis Baden-Mayer’s talk casts a dark shadow across policies enacted under FDR—what many probably have perceived historically as a ‘good’ thing. This is followed by a critical look at the landmark SCOTUS decision on Wickard v. Filburn, which many will know by association with Brown v. Board of Education.
Lots of threads here, and a lot to chew on.
Also, if you don’t know who Paul G. Hoffman was, and the role he played, you’ll find out!
Watch this clip.
The Agricultural Adjustment Act + The Committee for Economic Development
How did the rise of Cargill come about?
Is there a connection to the Marshall Plan?
What does eugenics have to do with the UN Development Program?
Watch this clip.
Cargill, The Marshall Plan, the Ford Foundation, and the CIA
Did you know that there was a Nixon-era plan to “shift away from consumption of animal livestock towards vegetables and synthetic meats” and “a closed system of agriculture—food from factories”?
The hits keep coming: the criminalization of milk, the criminalization of meat, and the rise of fake meat.
Watch this clip.
Rockefeller, Population Growth, and the American Future
All of this led to an uprising: the American Agriculture Movement. Remember the Canadian Truckers and European Farmers protesting with their tractors and trucks? Well, there was a precedent, back in 1979. But it wasn’t enough.
The Impact on Farmers
There’s a lot to digest here: real food for thought.
Please leave your thoughts in the comments, if you’re so inclined.
References (courtesy of Alexis Baden-Mayer) are at the bottom of the post.
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References
Video 1:
1944: 4 Million "Surplus" Farms
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What Post-War Policies for Agriculture?
Committee for Economic Development
1933: Emergency Livestock Reductions
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1916: Non-Partisan League
Source: Origins of the Non-Partisan League
Video 2:
1948-1950: The Marshall Plan
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The New U.S. Global Food Regime
Cargill & Minnesota's Well-Oiled War Machine
Recent news:
Cargill to halt grain loadings at its Russian export terminal
New Accusation by Amazon Peoples against Cargill
1950-1953: The Ford Foundation
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The Ford Foundation & India's "Green Revolution"
Max Millikan CIA letter to the Ford Foundation
1966-1972: The U.N. Development Program
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The Population Control Movement
Why the Population Bomb Is a Rockefeller Baby
Video 3:
1969: Population Growth and the American Future
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Frederic Leroy, Ph.D: Hostile Takeover of Food Production - Ice Age Farmer Broadcast
Population and the American Future
1948: Milk Criminalized
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Michigan Becomes the First State to Outlaw Raw Milk
FDA Prohibits Interstate Sale of Raw Milk
1967: Meat Criminalized
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The Wholesome Meat Act of 1967: Disaster for Small Slaughterhouses from the Start
1971: Fake Meat in School Lunch
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Archer Daniels Midland Company (1929 - Mid 1980s): Work with Soy
1979: The American Agriculture Movement
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A 5,000-Tractor Farmer Army: The Legacy of Tractorcade
The production and sale of Synthetic and GMO food needs to be banned. Government subsidies for commodity crops must end and the granting of food patents must end as well. The 14th amendment must be completely repealed to end corporate personhood so corporations can no longer claim legal status as naturalized federal US Citizen with endless federal privileges and immunities and the so called "equal protection of the law" that allows them to claim the Bill of Rights applies to them.
Thanks again, Alexis, for this great talk. I had to leave the session before the Q&A was done, but I had a question about the Commerce Clause and how it was use/abused by the Fed gov to get top down control of our food systems. Is Wickard v. Filburn the case on which all other decisions involving the Commerce Clause rests? If it were overturned, would the whole edifice of protecting the "welfare" of the people fall?