Family Farms Vanishing and a Consolidated Beef Industry – All for RFK Jr. to Remedy

Robert Kennedy Jr is well known for his focus on big Pharma. He is equally committed to the family farm in Making America Healthy Again, and those folks are in desperate need of someone to care. 141,000 family farms were lost between 2017 and 2022.

Just before the presidential election, RFK Jr. published a short video on X indicating that when Trump “gets me inside” the United States Department of Agriculture, “we’re going to give farmers an off-ramp from the current system that destroys soil, makes people sick, and harms family farms.”

In an interview with  Nicole Shanahan, Kennedy’s previous running mate, she stated:

“This is where I want to make the investments in our country. I want to create an entire – I want to bring back the infrastructure that allowed small and mid-size growers to be able to produce, and process, and package, and distribute locally, because that has all been taken away for the most part – it’s why it’s impossible economically for small growers to make a profit today.”  

Earlier in the interview, she noted:

“I’ve been a producer on a few of these regenerative agriculture films, and the biggest pushback we’ve ever gotten [was] from the artificial meat investors.

RFK Jr.: USDA

Zero Hedge:

The Beef Initiative, a non-profit focused on boosting localized food supply, listed four shocking facts about America’s family farms, the health crisis, the beef industry, and big pharma ads:

• Family Farms Disappearing: Over 141,000 farms lost between 2017 and 2022, with just 1.89 million left in the U.S. today.
• Health Crisis Rising: Obesity rates hit 42%, and Type 2 diabetes cases quadrupled since 1980.
• Beef Industry Centralized: 85% of U.S. beef is controlled by just 4 corporations.
• Big Pharma Spending: $19.6 billion on ads, $102 billion on research—focused on profit, not solutions.

We’ve heard of agency capture – but how about website capture?

• Beef.org: Owned by NCBA and the Big 4.
• Health.com: Powered by People Magazine.
• Science.com: Powered by Bill Gates.
• Beef.com: Once used by PETA.

Congrats to Kennedy for getting through the quagmire and being sworn as the Director of Health and Human Services. Personally I hope Trump will keep a strong leash on him with a lot of direction. This is a huge department, with much more than farmers and vaccines. Once a Progressive always a Progressive? Though I commend him for taking this on, and who else will unless it’s someone like the kids that Elon has rounded up who, from the outside, are willing to lay waste to the status quo. Let us not end up like Pakistan who in the name of “Green” did away with fertilizer, ending in mass starvation.

Back as recently as 2018 I posted the following story. This as a reminder that the Deep State is always just around the corner. Here is one family’s story.

Family Farm Could Face Prison for Calling Skim Milk by Its Name

April 20, 2018 — bunkerville

An Orwellian dystopia. In what kind of universe does a dairy farmer have to label skim milk from a cow as artificial milk, but if he adds artificial vitamins to it, he can call it natural skim milk? I know, in a leftist dream world. Ridiculous. Of course, this fine family is going to court for the fight of their life:

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And that is the best of the swamp.

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