Should We Trust Our Food Supply?
A few months ago I was scrolling through the Internet and noticed an unusual topic trending on Twitter/X: is the US government putting mRNA in our spinach?
Since then any number of stakeholders have weighed in — farmers urging against injecting mRNA vaccines into their animals, manufacturers arguing for their merits, and of course those reliably leftist news outlets offering their so-called “fact-checking” resources to bat down any suggestion of government malfeasance.
Dr. Peter McCullough, outspoken critic of mandated vaccines, recently sounded the alarm about the future of mRNA technology, saying China is working on a method to inject the mRNA COVID into the whole milk that kids drink, adding more harmful synthetic mRNA into the human body. China is not alone. In 2021, UC Riverside won a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to use plants as a delivery system for mRNA vaccines. “The future of vaccines may look more like eating a salad than getting a shot in the arm,” the university said. “Scientists are studying whether they can turn edible plants like lettuce into mRNA vaccine factories.”
Then there’s the issue of who controls our farmland.Bill Gates is now the #1 landowner in the US, with 270 million acres of farmland. Speculation abounds about why — Charlie Kirk thinks he’s collaborating with China to control our food supply. The Gates Foundation says it’s just a good investment. Either way, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has given Northrup King Seed Co., subsidiary of a CCP company, ChemChina, two years to divest of its 160 acres of Arkansas farmland.
Neither a scientist nor a farmer be, I do not know the veracity of claims by either side in the debate over vaccines — though I trust farmers more than food manufacturers. Likewise I’m not enough of an economist to know who is buying our farmland, or why.
But I do know that all of these controversies are stoked by the same phenomenon: In country after country, public trust in government is falling. We no longer believe our leaders tell the truth. In the US, the Gallup Organization annually polls American public sentiment concerning 14 institutions. This year, all went down to historic lows.
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