This is not a partisan post.  The Republicans are just as clueless, but they aren't in charge right now, so the indictment goes to the current administration.

             By now you've no doubt seen news clips where President Biden on Monday hosted a news conference lambasting the BIG FOUR meat and poultry packers for artificially raising prices, saying "capitalism without competition isn't capitalism, it's exploitation."  That's the sound bite getting all the publicity; it's catchy and appeals to the duplicitous.

             If he were speaking the truth, here is what he would have said:  "We're reaping what we've sown.  My covid lockdowns and vaccine mandates have scared everyone to death, making it almost impossible for businesses to operate efficiently.  My fraudulent financial largesse dispensed to the population incentivized non-working rather than working.  And our meddlesome, tyrannous food regulatory bureaucracy that is overtly prejudicial against small facilities has centralized our system in the hands of an oligarchy."

             That would have been a truthful assessment of where we are.

             Of course, not only did he miss the problem; he missed the remedy.  What's the remedy?  An investigation into packer collusion and $1 billion of fraudulent money thrown to supposedly anybody but the BIG FOUR to help them out.  Who are the top 4?  Cargill, Tyson Food, JBS SA (South America) and National Beef Packing Co.  Oh for the days when Teddy Roosevelt attacked the monopolistic Big 7 in 1906 that controlled 50 percent of the meat supply.  Apparently those were the days of free wheeling competition compared to today.

             What is the real remedy?  If Biden were speaking the truth, here would be the remedy:  "To stem this centralization and destruction of America's farmers and ranchers, I'm drafting legislation today that I'll ask Congress to sign that gives every citizen of America the right to purchase the food of their choice from the source of their choice.  That way if any government or private agent or entity gets in the way of a person's food choice we have a legal remedy just like when someone takes away civil rights, the right to worship, or the freedom of speech.  I believe people own their bodies, not the government, and like we've withdrawn the meddlesome hand of government from the bedroom, the marriage altar, the border patrol, we're going to withdraw it from the esophagus."

             Immediately farms like ours, thousands and thousands of small farms, could butcher, make pot pies, charcuterie, quiche and a host of food items to compete with government-licensed fraudulent food.  For those who want government food, that's fine.  But folks dubious about government food, who have more trust in their farmer relationship, who march to the beat of a different drummer, who take the road less traveled--these folks could buy their home-made food and raw milk.  It would be the greatest food insurrection in history and it would send the BIG FOUR reeling into crony capitalism freefall.  It might even send things back to 1906 when it was the BIG SEVEN controlling 50 percent, which right now seems a lot better than what government meddling has given us, with the BIG FOUR controlling 85 percent.

             Food freedom--what a thought.  Do you think it's reckless?