So why, after decades of food and farm regulation, are health outcomes collapsing?
Because regulation does not target the true problem. It protects corporate interests.
Farmers do not have powerful lobbies. Chemical companies do. Seed conglomerates do. Large processors do.
Regulation often preserves harmful substances in the food system while making it illegal for farmers to operate outside centralized, industrial pipelines.
After the Food Safety Modernization Act under President Barack Obama, many farmers were suddenly unable to sell directly to grocery stores.
Food had to travel farther. Middlemen became mandatory. Small producers were pushed out.
The result was less fresh food, lower nutrient density, and greater distance between people and their food.
We may have reduced certain types of foodborne illness—but we did not create a healthier population.
Every layer of interference pulls us further from food, farmers, and biological truth.
European farmers are not extremists. They are early warning systems......
Invite farmers to the table. Regulate at the chemical level if something is unsafe. Measure outcomes, not inputs. Reduce bureaucracy instead of expanding it.
Why are tractors filling European cities while the media barely notices?
Because acknowledging these protests would require admitting something uncomfortable: that governments are overreaching, that farmers are right, and that the systems sold as “for the public good” are failing both the public and the people who feed it.
What’s happening in Europe should concern every American.
Because once you regulate farmers out of existence, you don’t get them back.
And no society survives long after it breaks its relationship with the land—and the people who know how to work it.