How We Killed American Ranching
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Where’s the beef? I keep thinking of that Wendy’s commercial from back in the 1980s. lots of talk about beef prices. Farmers not too happy, not too happy that we’re going to be buying Argentinian beef when we have rancher after rancher here in the United States going out of business for some time. Okay, we had
the Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins. Come on down Brooke. Yeah, she was on CNBC and Brooke. Brooke was she was talking about how well, you know, it’s gonna take a while and we don’t have the processing. Brooke.
You’ve got rules and regulations that are put into place to benefit major companies that handle beef. That’s the problem. That’s the problem we have right now is that both Democrats and Republicans are tied into these processing plants and they get the business.
talked about this here on the program, how nonsensical it is and how you have to go to FDA approved processing plant. And the fact that certain states in particular, New Hampshire is going to try to circumnavigate that by saying, Hey, we’re going to do it here in our state, we just won’t ship it out of state rules, regulations, issues, problems, which make our costs continue to go up. It was actually was funny. It was interesting.
Side note outside of beef story about Big Sugar and the Fanjul brothers and how they’re benefiting again and benefiting from all of the tariffs and various different other things that help their business. I want to remind everybody the Fanjul brothers. This always goes back to remember that movie with Demi Moore strip tease and the boat Big Sugar.
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And I talked about the big business in the state of Florida, the Fanjule Brothers. Actually, Bill Clinton was on the phone with one of the Fanjule Brothers when, well, Lewinsky was doing her thing. Yeah, one of them happened to be a massive supporter of the Republicans. The other one, a massive supporter of the Democrats. They win. We lose. Time, time. Again, Brooke, you can fix the problem if you really wanted to.
You get rid of all sorts of burdens and regulations. Let’s take that and put that aside as well. Another reason why we don’t have as much beef production here in the United States is, well, zoning. First, you make it difficult on the ranchers, first and foremost, with the regulations that you put into place. And then the ranchers say, screw it.
Screw it, it’s like watching Yellowstone for crying out loud. They have Kevin Costner there in Yellowstone and his character trying to hold on to his family business and how they go about doing things in their way of life and how the family built this massive ranch up, the Dutton Ranch.
Reality hits that they’re gonna be able to afford the property taxes on their property the business doesn’t really make any sense anymore and Why not sell it sell it to the developer who’s tied in to Both Democrats and Republicans and let’s rezone all of that land Rezone all of that land so we can put up
apartment complexes that look like they were designed by Excel.
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Hey guys, am I wrong here? That’s what happens. It’s happening all over the country. The old pave paradise and put up a parking lot. That’s what we do.
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That’s what we do. It would seem to me, would seem to me, you know, Trump talks about importance of national security and ensuring this and ensuring that. I would think food security would probably be a pretty big one.
In my opinion, would be. Food security would seem pretty important. mean, it also be great if we could lower costs for we the people at the grocery store. What we pay here in the United States is patently absurd. Man, would seem to me it’d be pretty great as well. If a lot of food that we actually source came from local farms, you know as well as I do.
You know, got a great restaurant in your town, 99 % chance that they are tied in to farmers within the local area and they know where they’re getting their produce from. They know the fishermen where they’re getting their fish from. They know where the meat is coming from and they know it’s of the highest quality. That’s, you know, that’s, you know, that’s 90 % of the battle. If you want to have a good restaurant chef, you got to have good ingredients that are going into things. It’s just that simple.
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But no, no, no, no, we can’t do that. We gotta run it through big ag and big farm and we’ve got farm checks. Remember talking about this years ago on the program, the amount of farm checks that would go to Park Avenue addresses in Manhattan. Farm checks, farm checks because they’re doing a lot of farming on that median there in Park Avenue. That Park Avenue median, yeah, right.
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Where’s the beef? Well, we’ve made beef very expensive based upon our own doing. Based upon the fact that you pay to play here in the United States. Pay to play. Real estate developers, pay off. Pay off politicians, rezone farmland, rezone ranch land. That’s just the way it is, people.
And again, you continue to vote for these people and they’ll give you everything. We’re gonna expand the tax base. For what? What do you need those tax dollars for exactly?
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