When in the course of regulatory overreach it becomes necessary for people to reclaim sovereignty over their food choices, they must explain why food choice among consenting adults should be guaranteed.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that the most intimate individual physical liberty is exercised in the freedom to choose the fuel for our micro-biome, that health is ultimately an individual responsibility, and that food stability, security, and safety are subjective judgments.
When a government denies individual choice for sustenance among consenting adults, the populace becomes enslaved to a provenance paradigm. Citizens who choose government-approved food must never bind with regulatory shackles their neighbors who choose alternatives provenance. Bureaucrats who dare to intervene between lips and throat engage in a most egregious invasion of privacy.
To think that the corporate-government industrial food complex will ever voluntarily relinquish control over every morsel of food is foolish. Therefore, we, the elected leaders in our culture, must wrest from the bureaucracy a fundamental right for citizens to choose the food of their choice from the source of their choice. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid nation:
-- Twenty percent of American food is imported, imperiling our nation’s ability to feed itself.
-- Local food entrepreneurs consistently and constantly face prohibitive licensing and compliance barriers to access their neighbors with food.
-- Swat teams and food police constantly harass small-scale food purveyors, confiscating food, destroying it, and denying consumers non-industrial sustenance options.
-- Centralized, long-chain food supplies are fragile, as evidenced by empty store shelves in 2020, when millions turned to local sources as a backup.
-- Nearly all food regulations are scale prejudicial, making compliance easier and cheaper for centralized industrialized operations than decentralized community-based ones.
-- Industrial food is less nutritious and less safe than small-scale, local counterparts based on empirical data accumulated and ongoing, even from government sources.
-- Every small-scale food entrepreneur lives in daily fear that some "i" is not dotted or "t" crossed in the face of subjective and often malicious regulatory requirements.
-- The industrial centralized food system destroys ecologies through mono-cultures, a dead zone the size of Rhode Island in the Gulf of Mexico, toxicity, pathogenicity, chemical usage, soil erosion, and water depletion.
-- The orthodox government paradigm has a terrible track record as evidenced by encouraging antibiotic use in factory farming, replacing butter with hydrogenated vegetable oil, subsidizing high fructose corn syrup, encouraging feeding dead cows to cows that resulted in bovine spongiform encephalopathy (Mad Cow), financing and defending Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), developing a food pyramid with Cheerios and Cocoa Puffs on the foundation, demonizing wildlife on farms, covering over prime farmland with solar panels, giving concessionary legal preference to large brands who violate Organic Certification, subsidizing fake meat research and a host of similar assaults against nature and nutrition.
The government has erected a multitude of new food police officers, sending them in swarms to farms and small food processors that eliminate local economies and consensual sustenance transactions.
The government now flirts with the United Nations and World Economic Forum to make all American food subject to the centralized industrialized food complex fraternity, subjecting our domestic system to nefarious globalist agenda.
Centralized regulation hampers innovation by codifying orthodoxy and demonizing alternative thinking as most recently demonstrated by unfettered creativity from Uber, Airbnb and cryptocurrency.
Food safety bureaucrats allow unpronounceable ingredients, monosodium glutamate (1 million pounds in 1940; today 300 million pounds), questionable materials Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS), and a host of other toxic inputs or nutritionally-compromising processing while demonizing historically normal foods like raw milk and home-canned tomatoes.
Assaulting neighborhood abattoirs for the last century has nearly put them out of business, while meat and poultry inspectors gloat over their efficiencies of more pounds per person-hour of oversight, a sickening objective for food safety.
The government assault on authentic food and farming protocols has created a modern lexicon unheard of a mere 50 years ago: food allergies, high pathogen E. Coli, salmonella, campylobacter, mRSA, Cdiff, and gluten intolerance, and superbugs.
Expecting redress with better regulators or more sensitive regulations is insane. Therefore we, the elected representatives of the citizenry, hereby declare food independence for all Americans who want to freely and voluntarily exercise their food choice. No law may infringe on the right of consenting citizens to acquire food, to sell it, or to process it in private transactions, exercising personal autonomy in responsibility and liability.
