Feb. 10, 2023 - Human Events Daily - Jack Posobiec
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EPISODE 391: THE FOOD CRISIS IN AMERICA
On today’s episode of Human Events Daily, Jack Posobiec is joined by guests Jermain Gil and Ben Spell of Good Ranchers to discuss the ongoing food CRISIS in America. The trio will dive into the various factors contributing to the shortage of food supplies and the impact it is having on communities across the country. They will also discuss possible solutions to this growing problem and what steps can be taken to ensure that EVERYONE is as prepared as they can be in the event of disaster. All ...
Folks, we are going to talk all about the food crisis in America today because it's gotten to the point that I need to address it.
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Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily powered by Turning Point USA.
Today is February 10th, 2023.
Anno Domini.
We are very excited today to join.
I think this is the first time we've actually done this because we've got two guys.
Now, they're not in studio with me, but they are in the Turning Point Studio back, our palatial Turning Point Studio at Turning Point Headquarters, all the way back in Phoenix, Arizona.
So we're linked up together, it's studio to studio membrane tied together at the umbilical cord.
We've got Jermaine and Ben from Good Ranchers with us today.
Guys, thank you so much for joining the show.
Hey man, thanks for having us.
We're excited to be here.
Yeah, thanks Eric.
Well, I really appreciate it.
Now, for for folks who don't know, you know, for folks who are first timers, you know, we've talked about good ranchers a ton here on the show.
But for folks that aren't familiar, can you give me just a quick, you know, just a quick, you know, the elevator pitch for good ranchers?
What is it?
You know, why?
Why should people really care more about this?
And we're going to get in, by the way, today on today's show, this idea of actually paying attention to what we eat, paying attention to the types of food we eat, And paying attention to how the food we eat is sourced.
And so I think that was a perfect reason for having you guys on.
Yeah, absolutely.
So, Good Ranchers is American meat delivered.
Why that's important, the American meat part, is that 85% of the beef being sold in the U.S.
today is imported from overseas.
In 2015, Congress took away the country of origin labeling law.
On pork and on beef.
And since 2015, the floodgates have just been opened up for beef and pork to be imported into the U.S., processed in a U.S.
facility, and have an American flag sticker stamped on it and called Product of USA.
So consumers are more confused now than ever before.
And so, Good Ranchers exists to connect the American family to the American farm.
We only partner with American ranches, American farms.
Everything that we sell is born, raised, and harvested in the United States of America.
And we believe that American agriculture is the best agriculture in the world.
And we know that our country was founded by, was built on agriculture and farming.
And to see it just kind of Our country from the top down just doesn't care about it anymore.
We are losing the war on owning our own food supply.
And you can look all through history and whoever controls the food controls the people.
And we are rapidly giving up control of our own food supply.
So Good Ranchers exists, like I said, to connect the American people to the American farm.
We exist to provide high quality meals to families.
And to support the American agriculture food chain.
Yeah, and to jump off of what Ben just said, connecting the average American family to a local farm, I mean, that's how it used to be.
That's how this country was built, right?
You would know somebody that was raising cattle, or you knew somebody that was raising chicken, and you guys would either barter or supplier, you'd go down there and you'd buy from these guys, and you knew where your meat was coming from.
We've lost that whole system, right?
And so we go to a walk into a grocery store, we have no idea, like Ben was just saying, 2015, the cold law, we have no idea where our meat's coming from, where our eggs are coming from, any of this stuff, right?
Our pork is coming from.
And so, you know, I know when Ben and Corley started it, that was really something that was on their heart is to try to know where our meat comes from.
And so we're just trying to get back to the way it used to be.
We're not trying to reinvent the wheel here.
We're trying to go back to the way it used to be.
It's like we're connecting who our customers are to local farms and ranches, right? - And the great thing about it, and by the way, so my family, just full disclosure here, we've got, I don't even know how many boxes total of Good Ranchers that's been delivered to us over the past, I think over a year now, we've been getting them.
And every time we go through one, we get another one.
And the way this works is it gets delivered So you don't have to go, you know, we just do the shopping basically, you know, online and we say, Oh, we want so this, this amount of this, this amount of that, because, you know, we've got, uh, um, my, my wife's parents live with us.
And so we've got six adults in the house, two kids.
So we're always going through food.
We're always shopping.
And there's something great about knowing, especially because look, we've been facing and we've seen in the news, So many supply chain issues with food just over the past year.
And it's it's funny because I remember when they first, you know, approached me and said, hey, to check this good ranchers thing out, is it something you'd be into?
I said, yeah, that'd be great.
I think that'd be I think that's awesome.
I'm all about natural food.
I'm all about the fact that it's that it's not processed food.
And so my my my wife and her family, they're from Eastern Europe.
And so when they came to the United States, this idea of all the processed food that Americans eat is so completely foreign to them.
And I remember my father-in-law saying something like, "Why are you Americans?
You eat so much plastic food.
I don't understand why you eat all this plastic food." 'Cause that's what it is to him.
You guys have been cutting that out, but even more to the point, can you explain this to us, Maybe you've got, I'm sure because you're in the industry, and since I've gotta do my job as an interviewer, the egg thing.
You gotta explain to me, where are all the eggs going?
What's going on with the eggs in this country?
Yeah, so there's actually, there's several factors into this.
One, the rise in cost, right?
I think, last I looked, the average egg price is almost 70% higher than it was a year ago.
I know in some places, I think it's over $4 now, the average cost of a dozen eggs.
That's a steal.
That's a steal.
I know some places it's $10, it's, you know, up there.
So, one of the areas is obviously, and this is what everybody talks about, inflation, right?
And inflation has, there's several steps.
So, the egg farmer, right, the chicken farmer that's producing the eggs, they're having to pass those inflation costs back to the customer because it's just layer after layer, whether it's Feed.
Feed is at an all-time high as well.
Chicken feed is the most expensive it's ever been in the history of agriculture.
And obviously there's layers to that too.
And we'll talk about this one if we talk about beef as well.
But the war in Ukraine with Russia.
Russia and Ukraine are the two largest, you know, producers of grain for chicken grain.
And so that's obviously affected the price of grain all over the world, but especially here in the U.S.
So you have the inflation cost, but then you also have the bird flu, the avian flu that is Decimated the farm.
And what's happened is there was a huge outbreak about three or four months ago.
The hen population decreased significantly.
And this happened about 15 years ago, by the way.
It broke out about 15 years ago.
We had huge hen population decrease significantly, but it stopped, right?
They took care of it.
It went through.
We had a big outbreak.
We had a little bit of a section where nothing happened and then another outbreak.
the hen size, the herd or the amount of hens out there never got a chance to repopulate.
And so there's a physical chicken shortage and then we have the inflation issue, right, with the increased cost.
So that's the problem with the eggs here.
And so this just, but it just puts a light on the broken system that we're working in, right?
It's a broken system where we're expect as families, we expect to walk into a grocery store and just, you know, have there's all the food we want here.
And it just ties back to like having to, you know, owning your own food supply, right?
Whether it's through Good Ranchers, right?
Or some other source, but being able to know exactly where you're going to get your food from, whether it's eggs, beef, chicken.
So where these giant outlier events can't affect you.
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Well, and that's exactly right, because, you know, we see study after study that's talking about the health in the United States.
I think after COVID in general, people are asking more questions about their health and not just about from, you know, from the perspective of a, you know, of a virus or, you know, potential different treatments.
But we're also starting to look more at the inputs to our health, this more holistic view of things.
This idea that you got some guy up there on TV who doesn't look healthy at all telling you that he knows what's best.
And then you've got some government worker determining what the government says should be right.
But of course, we know the government was completely wrong with the food pyramid.
They promoted that for three decades of being completely wrong.
They're still wrong in many of the things that they put out from the FDA.
And we know this is because Big Ag is coming in and, you know, pushing different things they want.
Obviously, big sugar plays a huge, huge role in that, as well as the amount of sugars that find themselves in our processed foods.
Can you talk a little bit about why it's so important that we make sure that our food is not coming from one of those sources and that we are getting indeed, you know, when you go to a Whole Foods or a grocery store, that you're not necessarily getting just raw natural product as opposed to what you guys actually ship directly to people's homes.
Yeah.
Eat real food.
I've tweeted that so many times.
Eat real food.
Wait, wait, wait.
I'm sorry.
My wife always says this though.
She always says, when you go to buy something at the store, You want the minimum amount of ingredients possible.
And if and if possible, there should only be one one word when you look under the ingredients, you go out and you look at this like beyond meat and plant based this and plant based that.
One of my producers was just telling me, I guess Chick-fil-A is experimenting with a, you know, plant based beyond meat chicken.
And it's like Chick-fil-A cauliflower.
I know.
Right.
I thought that was chicken.
Exactly.
Even they're getting everywhere with this stuff because and you look at the list of the thing reads like a CVS receipt with all the ingredients in this stuff.
It's like, yeah, there might be something that touched a plant at some point.
But what else you got in there?
But yeah, please, go ahead.
Yeah, well, we're actually in the process of writing a blog.
Every Friday we put out a different blog and we try to talk about what's going on in the industry and the meat industry and current events and things like that.
We're working on one right now because we just learned this recently, that Beyond Meat actually has a patent with Dippin' Dots.
Okay.
Yeah, where they're using the technology of Dippin' Dots to freeze this fatty substance into these little gelatinous mass pellets that they actually make the Beyond Meat with.
It's disgusting.
Yeah, it's gross, yeah.
It's absolutely disgusting.
So what they're trying to do is replicate, that's actually just what my mind went to when you said that.
So they're trying to replicate the, because you'll get these little gelatinous globules in meat just naturally, as you get, that's where marshmallows and different things come from when you're processing it.
But that, and I just remember from working in a deli when I was growing up, basically, that what they're trying to do is replicate that using Dippin' Dots technology to create artificial, oh, that sounds so weird. - And the number one ingredient for that is canola oil.
- Yeah. - Which obviously, like the seed oil is a huge, huge debate right now.
Huge conversation.
But I mean, I'm, I'm, I'm all about it.
I'm, I'm a hundred percent.
I'm like in this house, we do not eat seed oil in this house.
We do not touch receipts.
Uh, you know, we go, we go hardcore with all that stuff.
Um, and my, but, but you gotta understand that for, for my wife and for her family, It's not viewed as hardcore.
For them, it's normal, because most countries in the world, and particularly in Europe, but just most countries in the world in general, they do not eat like Americans.
They don't eat what's referred to as the standard American diet.
And if you've ever traveled outside the world, or if you've ever had natural meat, if you've ever had natural vegetables, you will understand that the physical taste, the texture, the quality, it's totally different from the stuff we've been eating.
Oh, hands down, no question.
It's, you know, this started, this really started in the 70s, probably before then, but when we, when talking about the food pyramid and just the American nutrition, we went on this fat-free craze and we put this war on fat and Then, which allowed them, which allowed us to start heavily processing things to make them fat-free, which is actually terrible for you.
Animal fats are so good for us.
They're good for the brain.
They're good for, I mean, you can go down the list of the reasons of why we need animal fats.
And it's just this war on fat, which then goes into this war on meat and And all it's done, it's crazy because every other country...
The U.S.
used to produce the most beef, more beef than any other country.
And we are on, if you look at a graph of the beef production in the U.S.
from the year 2000 to today, it's a 45 degree angle down.
And you can look this up on the USDA website.
It's out there for anybody to see if you go to the USDA website.
It's a 45 degree angle slant of a decrease in U.S.
beef production.
But Brazil and South America, They're mowing down the rainforest to create more pastures to put more cattle on.
New Zealand is constantly producing more and more and more beef.
We're on the verge of producing the least amount of beef than we've ever had before, and that's a problem.
That's a real problem because we are going to be We are going to be at the mercy of other countries trying to provide us real food if we want it.
And the majority of people just aren't talking about this.
I'm still glad and thankful that you had us on the show and I know that you regularly talk about things like this.
We talk about a lot of things in politics and the world, but food is a fundamental human need.
We need air, we need water, we need food.
And if we are dependent on other countries to provide us our food, then we might as well just be a slave to them.
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Well, that's exactly right.
I mean, we've gotten to the point now, and we talked about this in the pandemic, Where we were, essentially, we've outsourced everything.
So we are now, you know, you might say the U.S.' 's greatest export is jobs right now over the last 30 years because we sent all our manufacturing to China.
We've outsourced our energy to the Middle East.
And to your point, we are outsourcing more and more of our agriculture every single year with not only for the agricultural production of vegetables and crops, but also with livestock and This idea, and I don't think people realize this, that the stuff that you're getting that says USDA or U.S.
meat, it's not necessarily because of these labels, the way that it's processed, the way the shipping goes in.
They're able to slap this on, and you're right, it could be something from Brazil, it could be from Australia, it could be from Mexico.
You would not know.
Yeah, and the standards are so different.
That's the other topic.
The standards for raising cattle, the U.S.
has some of the most stringent standards for raising cattle, right?
Whether it's, you know, what's being fed, how it's being treated, veterinary, how they live, all those things.
Like we have some of the best standards.
These other countries, we don't know what they're doing, right?
You get to the South America, we don't know what there is.
There's no regulation, been brought up New Zealand Don't bury the lead.
They're mandating mRNA vaccines in their cattle?
first countries to start mandating the mRNA vaccines in their cattle.
So there's a there's a pretty big.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Don't bury the lead.
They're mandating mRNA vaccines in their cattle.
Break that down for me.
Yeah.
So I think it was earlier this couple of months ago that they were they were the first country they they pass it through their their their government that all cattle moving forward had to be vaccinated with the mRNA.
They had not put a date on it.
They haven't put a date on it.
And so yeah, they will be the first country to produce cattle that are actually have that mRNA vaccine.
So it's never been done in cattle before, right?
Outside of like some, you know, laboratory testing events.
But yeah, and there's a really large There's a really large online meat company out there that gets majority of their cattle from New Zealand.
So that's, you have to be careful.
You got to know, like back to what we said at the very beginning, connecting American families to the local ranch and farms.
Know where your meat comes from.
It's important.
It's extremely important.
Yeah, because you want to know what you're putting.
The reason my wife and I, Coralie and I started Good Ranchers is we, it was after we had our first child that We've always been healthy individuals, but after we had our first kid, we really started looking at labels and really started looking at what we were bringing into the home to put into our bodies.
And when we started looking at our options for meat, we found that there was not There's so much inconsistency and lack of transparency in the meat world.
There's literally a term in this industry that we've learned called the Meat Mafia.
Meat Mafia!
It's a regular term used in the beef industry because it's such a racket the way it's ran.
That's a great punk rock band name, by the way.
There we go, exactly.
Yeah, so again, we started Good Ranchers really for our own family, and knowing that if it was important to our family, it would be important to other families.
And so we eat, we're on a regular subscription of Good Ranchers.
We don't sell anything that we don't eat in our own home regularly.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, to your point, We've, we've done that for our family as well with Good Ranchers, with your company.
We've, we've, you know, our kids have eaten it.
Our, we've, we've been to turning point events where, you know, Good Rancher supplied the food and they love it by the way.
They absolutely love it.
The hot dogs, the burgers, particularly cause they're, they're kind of at that age where they're not really, you know, steaks.
And you guys do seafood as well.
But one of the, Uh, one of the things that I like about it is, is look, my wife and I, uh, she's raising the kids.
Um, I'm busy.
I'm, you know, taping shows and running off to this event, that event, or Charlie calls me up and says, Jack, you're sending me to Davos.
You're going to Davos for a couple of weeks and deal with the class Schwab and the economic forum and everything.
And it, and it's, it's tough to be able to sit down and say, Look, I don't always have time to do all the research into every single thing and I get it that people are busy.
I say this all the time and I say it sometimes I say it about, you know, elections, but or news in general is, you know, people aren't stupid.
People are just busy, right?
People are just busy and they're looking for a way to cut through They're there to save their time for things they want to be able to spend time on.
And sure, they can, you know, listen to podcasts like this.
And, you know, I highly encourage everyone to listen to podcasts to act even my own podcast.
Go ahead.
Listen to two X. I don't care.
So why?
But the idea is you want to be able to spend time with your family.
You want to be able to spend time where you're doing stuff that you enjoy.
You don't want to be spending time digging into.
You know, the sourcing properties of Beyond Meat and what does this ingredient do?
And that, I get it, right?
It takes forever.
It's going to take up so much of your time.
And what I appreciate that you guys do is that you've actually kind of already done that homework for them.
Yeah.
Well, yeah, that's what I was going to say.
There's lots of people putting meat in boxes.
You can get meat at the grocery store, but with the good ranchers, you can trust the source.
You know where you're getting it from.
And Ronald Reagan said in his farewell address, He said, all great change in America starts at the dinner table.
So tonight, sit down, start talking.
And our mission at Good Ranchers isn't to put meat in a box.
It's to bring people to the table.
The dinner table has been lost over the last 30, 40 years.
We're in a fast food society.
We want to provide amazing quality meat that you know you can trust where it's coming from, that supports American agriculture.
And you can just make easy, quality meals at home and spend time around the table because the table I couldn't agree more.
Guys, we're just about out of time, but just give us a couple of seconds left.
Let people know where they can follow you, what you guys are working on next.
And if people are interested, obviously it's GoodRanchers.com, but if you have anything else coming out with the company.
Yeah, so go to GoodRanchers.com, you can find it.
Bacon.
Yeah, we have bacon.
We're about to launch bacon here in about three weeks, and then we have a... Oh, don't tell me that.
You guys, no.
Not three weeks.
Now I gotta, I'm gonna wait three weeks.
And let me tell you, we... I need, I, I, I, come on, I'm like the host of the show, right?
I get a special cut.
We can get you some bacon sometime next week.
Producers, don't let them out of the building!
I have personally tried so much bacon over the last six months trying to get the... This is the best bacon, hands down, that we've had.
It is amazing.
You're going to love it.
We're launching a pork line here in about six weeks.
Amazing pork line.
And I just want to say one thing.
Supply, like supply shortages are coming.
They're not, it's not an if, it is coming.
We have the lowest amount of cattle in the U.S.
ever, ever.
And it's only going to, we have about a three year gap.
We're just going to continue to go down.
So find a food source that you can trust, find a food source that you can depend on.
And with Good Ranchers, you can depend on us.
We've done, we've done our homework.
We've got a great supply chain set up.
So go out and find a place that you know, you know, you're not gonna have to worry about where your next meal is going to come from with Good Ranchers.
Yeah.
Guys, thank you so much for coming on.
We've got Ben Spell, Jermaine Gill here from Good Ranchers.
I appreciate you being on and explaining to us the importance of knowing that we put in our bodies and the importance of maintaining our supply chains.
