Oct. 1, 2025 - Epoch Times
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| We need a food emancipation proclamation. | |
| And so I'm not an abolitionist. | |
| I disagree with some of my friends in this, that we want to outlaw Monsanto. | |
| We want to outlaw glyphosate, outlaw ractopamine in pork. | |
| I don't like that stuff either. | |
| But when you look for solutions in a society, a culture has got a problem. | |
| Asking for a regulatory solution is the worst option possible. | |
| Yeah, you want a market solution. | |
| That's what you're asking. | |
| Exactly. | |
| Yeah, you want a liberty solution. | |
| Can we solve this with freedom? | |
| So I'm not interested in being an abolitionist necessarily. | |
| What I do want is a viable underground railroad so that those of us who want to escape the shackles of the regulatory system and take ownership of our food choices can do so. | |
| And if we did, the price of local food would drop by 30 or 40 percent. | |
| So suddenly now really good food is available to non-wealthy people. | |
| Food deserts would go away because empty lots could be turned into food things and people could make food in their kitchens and offer it there in the community. | |
| Then there would be an on-ramp for thousands and thousands of young farmers with small acreages to be able to make a full-time living on their farm. | |
| There isn't really a danger to this large-scale farming system through this, is there? | |
| It doesn't feel, it feels to me like something that can work side by side and if it will be able to reverse it. | |
| And it'll help and it'll help them because it will kind of challenge them to become better in ways that maybe they're not being challenged right now. | |
| They don't want to be challenged to be better. | |
| Like my point is you don't need to create regulations to stop the big farms from doing what they're doing. | |
| You don't need to do anything. | |
| Let them do their thing. | |
| Just let these people do their thing. | |
| Food buyers would leave the industrial system en masse if alternatives were cheaper, more available, and more abundant. | |
| Well, but now you're telling me why they should be scared. | |
| And they should be, which is why they don't want this to happen. | |
| Right. | |
| If they admit a lot of people are going to buy from these guys, then you have to admit there is a yearning in the marketplace for this that you're stopping. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And so, you know, they tend to want to eliminate. | |
| I think they want it simple. | |
| They've got a system. | |
| They've got it going. | |
| They don't want trouble. | |
| You know, they've got a good steady stream of cash. | |
| You know, this is disruptive, as Uber obviously was. | |
| Oh, look at the chauffeur industry and how they were. | |
| Well, and the medallions in New York City and all of this, right? | |
| So it's disruptive. | |
| But at the same time, I think it would be very positive for everybody. | |
| Oh, right. | |
| Well, it would be positive if you really had a liberty-centric system. | |
| Who wins and who loses? | |
| All right. | |
| Who wins? | |
| Well, the average person wins. | |
| Farmers who want to participate win. | |
| Who loses? | |
| Well, maybe people aren't as sick anymore, so hospitals lose. | |
| People are going to choose chicken that's not Tyson's, so Tyson loses. | |
| It's the entrenched oligarchy, frankly, that loses in a free market system. | |
| The ones that win are the ones that offer opportunity and choice. | |
| I would argue that these large-scale operations that are sort of deep in the system and providing the food to America as we speak, I mean, it would help them to get better. | |
| And I think that's positive. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| Oh, I do too. | |
| I mean yeah, philosophically, absolutely. | |
| If they were suddenly pressured by 100,000 little competitors, we would see changes very fast. | |
| And this is really the best part of capitalism, isn't it? |
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