Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "" video.

  1. You know what protects you against damaging food additives? Knowing the farmer or rancher to grew or raised it. Buy local.
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  2. We injected cows with antibiotics for decades, because it added weight at less cost. We inject cows with steroids to add weight at less cost. Then we eat that beef, and wonder why we have so many health problems. I try to buy "organic" and "grass-fed," but as these categories are defined and monitored by the USDA, I don't trust even THAT.
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  3.  @hannahpumpkins4359  No, it's not. It's optimized for whatever the U.S. government wants to promote, and that means it's optimized for what Big Pharma and the Health Industrial Complex wants, and that means the average person is paying for 5 or 6 other people and/or more expensive drugs that a TRUE for-profit operation trying to keep its customers happy would not do. If it were truly about free-market competition, medical service providers (doctors, nurses, and hospitals) would find the best-quality, lowest-price drugs and services. If you don't believe me, find a "Cash-only" clinic. You'll be shocked at how cheap the prices are, because they don't have to deal with insurers (i.e., the government). There's almost zero red tape, and the quality is very high. These outfits are hard to find, because our hybrid, free-enterprise/socialized system has a huge competitive advantage over clinics that try to operate by free-market principles. The government offers all kinds of inducements (higher profit and no punishments) to health-care providers that jump through all the hoops. Jumping through the hoops is easier than providing the best health-care product at the lowest price, in competition with all other health-care providers.
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  4. Farms should grow for local consumption, and sell the surplus. Huge acreages devoted to mono-crop grain exports are probably wrong-headed. Clearing, spraying (fertilizers and pesticides) huge swaths of land isn't healthy. How do we evolve to something better? Get the government out of regulating and subsidizing agriculture. Make it an actual free-market thing. A lot of outfits, especially the big, corporate operations, will scream to high heaven, because they have a huge advantage over the smaller outfits, at present. They're big enough to comply with regulations, but they're not small and nimble enough to keep local customers happy, and put a face on the food. A person behind what's on the table. Then, doing things responsibly doesn't mean "I just have to keep the bought-off bureaucrats in Washington, DC happy." It means "Local customers will get to tour the place, and shake hands with the people who are bringing them sustenance." Then, having a well-run operation that's 100% transparent to the people who, you know, actually EAT the food, will be a selling point. And more city kids will spend more time seeing what farming and ranching is. It'll be a custom for parents and schools to take trips out to the local farms and ranches on field trips. We put public officials (targets of corruption) between us and the food we eat. What could go wrong? Farmers who grow for local kitchen tables have a huge advantage in that their distribution costs are very low, and they get to keep all the profit for delivering the crop or beef or poultry to the local grocers and restaurants. Greenhouse oranges in Nebraska are proven profitable. The Florida and California growers receive a tiny fraction of the income from growing oranges. Their oranges cost a lot to ship to Nebraska or North Dakota. Anyway, realizing all this is one thing. That doesn't mean we want to PUNISH farmers and ranchers with phony "carbon tax" penalties or other penalties because their cows belch or fart too much. Just get the government out of it and people will choose to buy healthier food and more nutritious food. The way we farm, now, depletes the soil and pumps up the output by throwing fertilizer on the soil that makes plants grow, faster, but the plants are depleted in trace minerals. It's just all nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium. Short-term profitable, but there's a reason old-timers let the ground lay fallow.
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