If you dont mind cheap food and produce & durable goods imported into our country, By all means buy the cheap stuff that puts Amarican own'd and based Business in a bind, Die off or Leave or at very least exploited by investment groups, they can only survive if they leave the USA (Polaris Parts mfg in Mexico) (aircraft parts stamped Cessna mfg in Mexico??) where there no Unions (mexico) & poor people they can exploit.
(supermarkit chain stors) have been buying Canadian and Mexican Beef the last 10 years, till the exchange rate of the canadian dollar rose and the US $ fell so advantage to that anymore, Canadians now come to USA to shop for cheap American Goods
The beef processed at huge facilities (IBP Iowa Beef Processors) mainly exploit/employ the under privelaged (almost slave like wages) (think itenerant mexican & very poor) check out the complaints State of Iowa fair wage beareu fields, OSHA violations, EPA complaints...... the profits go to investment groups that only care about the bottom line.
Dakota City Iowa location of IBP, The locals were shocked by the influx of the very poor, ther health conditions, the strain on the living assistance they workers (food stamps and energy assistance) apply for and get, local crime climbed outta sight
When I was young any bad meat that hit the store shelves was a localized incident not nation wide, the bread you ate was baked no further than 100 miles away.
Its all going big business we farm from ditch to ditch, grub pastures in the dirt, hogs confined in one place that produces enuf sewage to rival small cities and no oversight on environmental inpact, anybody ever have there well water tested? surface water contaminated by high in Nitrates added by also from all the dry furtilizer dumped on sub-par soil to increase yields, the Ogalla Aquafer has dropped steadily since the 1970's (called overdraft look it up) due to substantial irrigation, in 1990 american agriculture had dispenced a stunning amount of pesticide/herbicides, 11 pounds for every man woman and child in the USA there used to be diversity and compitition because there was so much to choose from, now your limited, Big three going bankrupt and feds bailing them out? they never bailed out Bantum,Kiaser,Studabaker,Nash,Willys, Banks never were coddled before, Now stupid and greedy is OK they get bail'd out and allot abused the system at taxpayers expence, Its Ok to do stuff that isnt ethical we call it big business and progress and competitive business.
The govt was run by statesmen, now its run by professional speculating politicians (politicans for profit), animal husbandry and herdsmanship that had roots in conservation and sustainability is now agribusiness that pays only lip service to that while rapeing the environment, 50 years ago a hog farmer had mabe 40 markit hogs the local environmental inpact was allot less than todays massive consolidated hog confinment facilities a single hog in one day has generated the waste of 4 humans and all this is handled by water which is pumped out the ground and flushed into huge containment pits, the raw sewage is tanked out and spread on fields nearby where the nitrogen soon leaches into the soil and through pricipation and irrigation collects in the ground water table (Local wells).
You want your money to go to a good cause?? go look up a struggling local rancher and buy a beef off him and have it processed at the local meat locker(employs local residents), stick that meat in the freezer, the only middle man was the meat locker that killd and processed &packaged that meat, all that cash stays in the community stimulating your local economy.
You shop at the CARR's/ Safeway ther's no telling just how far that meat traveled to make its way into your local store, Just may shock you, That Milk just may be from 200 miles away.
I dont like the Monilith idea of big business or big government has become (all your eggs in one basket)
diversity and sepration need to happen, if anything bad happens you want seperation so the whole mess dont go down in one fell swoop, this goes for anything from chickens in coops to herds of cattle or the bank you have a mortgage with.
