NEIGHBORFOOD
I've been invited to be on a virtual town hall meeting tomorrow with Donald Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Tulsie Gabbard, but I'm going to be tied up with a farm consult and video crew in Houston, Texas. They wanted a 3 minute presentation from me. Unfortunately, they can't pre-record so I'm having to sit this out, but I wanted to share my 3-minute offering with you. Maybe it can get some traction here. And just so you know, this is the first time I've introduced the concept of NEIGHBORFOOD. I was looking for something equivalent to Uber and Airbnb, a brand that could be marketed concisely and precisely to America. Who could be against NEIGHBORFOOD? You're welcome. ha! Here you go:
The easiest and most efficacious policy to insure our nation's food safety, security, and stability would be to issue a FOOD EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. Right now, thousands of entrepreneurial farmers and collaborative cottage industry food initiatives are yearning but unable to launch due to scale-prejudicial federal regulations.
Guaranteeing freedom of food choice among consenting adults would bring innovative competition to the marketplace and create a check on the stranglehold enjoyed by current industrial food titans. We don't need anti-trust; all we need is freedom.
Just like Uber freed ride-hailing from the licensure clutches of taxi services and AirBnb freed hospitality from commercial building codes enabled by real-time electronically-aggregated monitoring audits, neighbor-to-neighbor food commerce would offer the same quantum leap in choice and opportunity in the food and farm sector.
It could be called the NEIGHBORFOOD policy to unshackle farmers and eaters from the slavery of regulatory taskmasters and tyranny. From chicken pot pies to beef stew and raw milk, consumers would suddenly be blessed with thousands of options in their neighborhoods that don't currently exist. And entrepreneurial farmers would be blessed with thousands of marketing options in the value added and retail sector to be able to come home full time and enjoy an economically credible agricultural vocation like their great-grandparents of yesteryear.
The only reason 4 companies control 85 percent of America's meat supply is because the entrepreneurial farm community can't launch innovative embryos into the marketplace due to regulations that make these dreams too big to be birthed. Solution prototypes must be birthed small. All the current mega-food oligarchs started from the tailgate of a pickup truck in the 1930s and 1940s before regulatory constraint became so ubiquitous, unreasonable, and adversarial.
An entrepreneurially unshackled food and farming sector would check further concentration and corruption in the regulatory-industrial fraternity and usher in a renaissance relationship with the butcher, baker, and candlestick maker. NEIGHBORFOOD offers the single fastest, cheapest, and easiest solution to the problems plaguing the food and farm industry. Let's restore liberty and a true free market.
Who would be against this?