Back in the early part of the 21st Century, myself and several others were saying “this is almost entirely about a government takeover of everything, including your money and freedom. They want to use global warming, now called Climate Change, as a platform for this.” So many said we were crazy. Yet, the facts were right there. And climate cultists keep showing this is not about science or the environment or anything like that
Cory Booker: We Can’t Solve Climate Change or Inequality Without Fixing Our Food System
On the national stage, Sen. Cory Booker (D.-N.J.) is probably best known for his swash-buckling stint as Newark’s mayor, his unsuccessful bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, and his relationship with movie star Rosario Dawson. One aspect of his political career that doesn’t get nearly enough ink: Over the past several years, he has emerged a genuine agriculture-policy maverick—someone determined to shake up the stodgy, corporate-friendly status quo that hangs over the DC sausage factory when it comes to laws that shape our food system.
Why? The system pretty much works. I have a JVC stereo receiver from 1987 that works just fine. Sure, there is no optical input, and the new TV, like so many, has no RCA type audio outputs, so, I got a little device that takes the optical output from TV and converts to RCA, for those few times I want to stream audio from the TV (it allows me to also use the Bluray as a CD player with better sound than the headphone jack to stereo method). I have a Carlos acoustic guitar from early 80’s. It works fine. Why get another? Sure, maybe I just want something new. Neither is as important as the food system, which works well. What would be the point?
Last Friday afternoon, Booker took a breather from one of the most fraught, frenzied weeks on Capitol Hill in recent memory to chat with me for a Mother Jones live event about his journey from urban mayor to the Hill’s most prominent voice for a progressive, multi-racial version of populism in farm country. Food policy “touches on everything from climate change to rebuilding rural America to racial justice,†he argued, adding, “but it’s the area I find that leaders know the least about.†You can watch the whole conversation here: (video at link, if you want)
Why do they need to know that much? Why do they need to do anything? Now, Booker has a few small, and legitimate complaints, such as dumping cheap, unhealthy food in the crap, urban areas Democrats run, along with “running black farmers off their lands” (FYI: this happened to farmers of all colors and nationalities by Big Ag, too), but
At the end, with our time running out, Booker turned the tables and volleyed a question at me: “How do we make food policy the center of the progressive agenda?†Naming climate change, future pandemics, and racial injustice, he stressed that “anything that a progressive says they’re really worried about, I can point to it and say: We we will not solve that unless we start focusing on the American food system.†In just two years, right after the midterm elections in 2022, he added, Congress will have to renew the farm bill, the sprawling twice-a-decade legislation that governs US food and farm programs and shapes what we eat and how we grow it.
In other words, a complete government takeover of the agriculture sector, one which already has an enormous amount of regulation put on it, all in the name of ‘climate change’ and raaaaacism and health. This is all for your own good, you know, putting your Betters in charge.
