Replying to a message of John Beamish to Tony Ingenoso:

 JB> From: "John Beamish" 

 JB> The farmers?  Maybe.  The agribusiness?  Not a chance (too dependent
 JB> on subsidies and too focused on quarterly targets).

 JB> Food isn't grown on farms anymore, it's manufactured by producers.

It occurs to me that perhaps the one participant in the food chain that you
DON'T want to p*ss off is Cargill.  That private company (its stock is not
publicly traded and it is therefore exempt from all the rules that publicly
traded companies have to comply with) has its hands in most of the buying
and selling of foodstuffs and farm supplies in this country and FTM all
over the planet.

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