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18th Annual Food and Agriculture Conference & Membership Meeting

The British government, along with their corporate partner, the East India Company, saw unlimited potential to extract wealth through the American colonies. Our Founding Fathers, willing to fight for our freedom and sovereignty, risked their lives and the lives of many citizens, to save us from the servitude of the British Crown and East India Company plutocracy.

Foodopoly Lecture at Colorado College
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Wenonah Hauter informs us in her timely book, Foodopoly, that the U.S. is now a net food importer on a value basis. She also pulls back the curtain exposing the cartel of companies that now control America’s food supply – known as Big Food. How could this have happened in America?

Forty years ago, I graduated from Colorado State University. The curriculum taught that the U.S., with its vast resources, technology, and smart young leaders, would not only be feeding ourselves, but we would be feeding the world. Finance professors told students, "Don’t be afraid to borrow money (lots of it) – leverage is the key to success in the expanding and exciting field of agriculture."

Hopeful and energetic students weren’t prepared for anything other than a fair, open, and competitive marketplace. There were laws to keep markets fair and competitive. Suggesting that one company or even a small group of companies could control our food supply was inconceivable. Food was considered too important to allow anyone too much control over it. After all, farmers were scattered across America, producing all kinds of food in various ways and selling into local markets. The export market was too big and exciting to even … more

Assumed by its name to be an advocate for the cattle industry, the NCBA is actually the independent cattlemen’s worst nightmare.

With its control of the Beef Checkoff Program, the NCBA is:

• Leading the attack against country of origin labeling (COOL)
• Undermining every effort to restore competition to U.S. livestock markets.
• Facilitating trade agreements that are lowering our U.S. food safety standards

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Sincerely,

Pat Craycraft
Organization for Competitive Markets

We are the only national think tank focusing strictly on antitrust and trade policy in agriculture.

We are "pro-business" because we believe in free markets and the law of supply and demand to allocate resources properly.

We are "conservative" because we believe American values such as honesty and morality should be demanded of our businesses and politicians.

We are "liberal" because we believe government has a regulatory role to create and enforce the rules of doing business, thereby avoiding capitalism.

We are "populist" because we have determined our nation is made economically and culturally wealthy by preserving the ability of independent families to produce our food without fear of the economically dominant firms in agribusiness.

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Disclaimer The opinions of the authors presented in our newsletter are their own and are not intended to imply the organizations position. OCM has membership with diverse viewpoints on all issues. OCM is committed to one and only one principal; competition.