A speech from May 2020 arguing that federal subsidies for commodity crops like wheat, corn, soy, and cotton have created unsustainable farming practices that damage health and the environment. The speaker calls for policy change to fix a broken system.
80% of all the federal subsidies and they're huge federal subsidies. We talk about sugar and we know all the obvious, but they're huge commodity subsidies. Yeah. So it's like wheat and corn and soy. Exactly. Soy, sorghum, wheat, corn, all those. So those eight, that's five, that's five, but of the eight, yeah, cotton. So all the subsidies are going to those eight. And then the best way to produce those eight to get the price down is to get rid of the family farmer and come in and just get these large tracks. But worse than that, I put on my TNC hat, is the types of techniques that are used are just the opposite of what are eco-friendly, sustainable over time, more nutritious, things like no-till farming. You know, no-till farming is harder to do, but protects the earth clearly, but over time much more nutritious both for the soil and for the product itself. Well, it does away with that. And so that policy may have been right for the time, but it drove us further and further away from the metabolic disorders which are destroying our kids, our country, the future, our healthcare system, the Medicaid programs and costs to the state. And so now we need to continue to wake up and start to begin to reverse that in terms of our national policies itself.
