Industrialized, centralized, large-scale food production, processing, and shipping make necessary the regulations and oversight that are designed to prevent food contamination by harmful micro-organisms and toxic materials and avoid food-borne illness as there are many links in the chain of this system.
But small local farmers who do not want to participate in this food industry system should not be forced into participation by industry and government, that is, government influenced by industry. A role of government is to protect the rights of the people.
Another role of government is to control criminal activity.
When Governor Doyle vetoed the Raw Milk Bill in Spring 2010, having been lobbied to do so by dairy associations and medical groups, though he said he was acting to protect the public, he "cowed" to talking-head lobbyists who represented industry. The people lost, and now a small, independent dairy farmer in Loganville, Wisconsin is being harrassed by the enforcers of "Big-Food": state and local "authorities".
"Powerful money-interests and enforcers working together to coerce small independents into protection for which they must pay," describes racketeering. "Participate with us, make your commodity available through us, pay us these taxes and fees, we'll return a little to you, and we'll protect you...."
Both organized crime and global corporations may be defined as transnational groupings of centralized enterprises focused on monetary profit and self-protection.
Industies have colonized the governments, and their regulations have usurped the rights of the people. The industry association of multi-national corporations is a kind of organized crime syndicate operating with little restraint and no oversight. Profits, growth, and self-protection are the motive and priority.
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. We are safer buying direct from our local, small, independent farmer: no links.
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