Robert Kennedy partially answered a question about why Gates and China are allowed to buy up all the farmland in our country. He used his own research and experience to explain it. You might be horrified by the answer. I know what he said is true because I researched it years ago when I first started the site.
“And I’m going to tell you something I had an experience with,” Kennedy began. “I spent many years, about 20 years doing the factory farms, the big hog farms and the big chicken producers like Tyson and Bo Pilgrim and Frank Purdue, but Smithfield Foods was the biggest pork producer, and Smithfield came to the state of North Carolina.
“They built a slaughterhouse that could process 30,000 pigs a day. And then they had a partner named Wendell Murphy, who was in the State Senate, and he passed 28 laws in the North Carolina State Senate make it illegal to sue a factory farm. He left and went into partnership with Smithfield. Created a way to raise pigs.
“Instead of raising on farms, to raise some warehouses called Murphy 1100s, they dropped the price of pork from 60 cents a pound to two cents a pound. It put out a business all 28,000 independent hog farmers in the state of North Carolina, and it replaced them with 2200 factories, all of them either owned by Smithfield or contracted to Smithfield.
Farmers Became Serfs on Their Own Land
“The only farmers who could stay in business were farmers who signed that contract with Smithfield to mortgage their homes to put those big hog sheds, the Murphy 1100s on their property, and then they lose all control. […]
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