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China Buying Up American Farmland

China Buying Up American Farmland According to news-leader.com, Aiding and abetting a foreign enemy is treason. So when a bunch of corporate-backed Missouri politicians passed a bill that greenlit a Chinese invasion of Missouri farmland, we should call it what it is. Recently, on a farm in Palmyra owned by a family who has been farming Marion County for four generations, a crowd of independent farmers talked to me about getting backstabbed by their politicians. In March of 2013, the executives of Smithfield, a family-farm-killing agricultural monopoly and the state’s biggest pork producer, began plotting with Chinese officials to sell the company and its 40,000 acres of Missouri farmland to China. There was just one pesky problem: Missouri, where a large portion of Smithfield’s operations were located, had a law on the books prohibiting the ownership of agricultural land by foreign entities. So Smithfield did what corporate America does when it needs to break the law — buy off the politicians to change it. Smithfield was already a huge political player, well versed in lobbying and lining the pockets of politicians here in Missouri and across the country. When Smithfield told them to jump, our politicians didn’t ask why, they asked how high. Just two months later, Missouri Democrats and Republicans voted to let foreign countries buy up Missouri farmland. Within two weeks, Smithfield announced the deal: a Chinese multinational corporation would purchase Smithfield for $4.27 billion and take control of its 40,000 acres of Missouri farmland in the “largest Chinese takeover of a U.S. company” up to that point. In the U.S. Congress, politicians kept taking checks from Smithfield’s corporate PAC and looked the other way as China settled our land and disrupted our food supply chain. China Buying Up American Farmland Tags used for this video: treason,china,foreign farm ownership,U.S. sovereignty and security,Chinese invasion,Missouri farmland,Smithfield,Chinese officials,ownership of agricultural land,Palmyra,Smithfield’s operations,politicians,“largest Chinese takeover of a U.S. company,national security threat,Bayer,ChemChina,American farmers,treasonous politicians,family farmer,farm,land,real estate,40000 acres,China Buying Up American Farmland,family agriculture,money,invasion,threat You can learn more about The Black Business School by visiting http://TheBlackBusinessSchool.com. You can learn more about the Dr Boyce Watkins Black Stock Market Program by visiting http://TheBlackStockMarketProgram.com.