Letter To The Williams Lake Tribune

============================= The Editor, Williams Lake Tribune. February 18, 2008. Dear Mr. Editor, The destruction of the family farm, and of real private enterprise, started after WW2 with the Austrian School theories of Friedrich von Hayek, taken by Milton Friedman to the Chicago School of Economics as the “neoclassical market economic theory”, to become the biggest crime wave, colonizing and collectivizing the whole word under the dictatorial oligopoly of a few multinational corporations. In the fifties, US Secretary of Agriculture, Ezra Taft Benson, declared to farmers: “Get big, or get out”. In 1970, US Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, declared: “Control oil and you control nations, control food and you control people”, and “tame” politicians have been selling their farmers off ever since. The large majority of independent farms have now been ruined, and the world's diminishing food supply is now under the control of a few corporations, who depress prices to the remaining producers, while raising them to consumers. There's a growing, global shortage of beef, yet prices paid to our ranchers are half of what they were ten years ago, while prices in the stores are going up every week. The feedlots, controlled by mega corporations, are their main weapon of collectivization, setting the prices at both ends, while pumping the animals up with stinking tallow, falsely called, “marble”, the North American public became, incomprehensibly, addicted to. The feedlots are environmental disaster areas, with tens of thousands of animals up to their knees in muck, poisoning the land and water tables for large areas, while wasting incredible amounts of water for the infrastructure for small weight gains. The animals are shot full of antibiotics, hormones, steroids, etc, fed with grains, and then, as an article in the Western Producer pointed it out some years ago, this whole racket is repeated every time they're moved to other lots, in some cases 5-6 times, before their adulterated meat is sold to the public, while governments shed crocodile tears over people getting fat and down with an epidemic of diabetes. The best weapon against exploitation and dictatorship is self sufficiency, a concept abhorred by economists and politicians on the take. Unless producers take matters into their hands they'll all be wiped out and the control of food will be collectivized into the hands of the multinationals on agribiz kolkhozes, using imported Mexican labour, the mining industry is also dreaming about.. The public must be shown what junk they're forced to eat and then supplied through a producer controlled marketing system, bypassing the feedlots and middlemen, as it is already done to a great extent in the Maritimes and many parts of the world, with the selling of clean, wholesome, healthy, grassfed meats. Contrary to propaganda, it is easy to prove that many organic products, especially meats, can be produced and sold at much lower, sometimes for half the price of the feedlot junk, when the control of billionaire middlemen is removed from the system. With this letter I'm also delivering several packages of beef to the Tribune staff, from a calf that has never had any shots and never ate anything else but milk and grass, with the question to be answered in the paper: Have they ever had more tender and better tasting meat ? Ed Deak, Box 9, Big Lake Ranch PO, BC, V0L 1G0. Ph:243-2263, email: thinker @ this1.ca