This week, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) spoke on the Senate Floor in support of American farmers, who are the lifeblood of the United States. In his speech, Sen. Tuberville addresses his concerns about the mass outsourcing our country is doing with food production, as well as the dangers our country is facing with our foreign adversaries buying hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland nationwide.
“Thank you, Mr. President. I’m back, again, talking about something that is very, very important to everybody in the United States with America. There should be alarms going off about what’s happening. I know we are we have a lot of bad things happening all over the world. We’re in conflicts. We’re in situations where we’re trying to control our own destiny when we’re not getting a lot of help from a lot of people that we should be counting on. Well, let’s talk about the United States of America for a second. Let’s talk about our farmers. Our farmers are in trouble. We better wake up and smell the roses, because what’s happening in this country should be a crime.
We have lost, just in the last few years, 150,000 farms and over 25,000 farmers. […] And we take pride in what we do in this country. We do everything as First-class as we possibly can. And we’re running people out of business right and left, and it’s getting worse. Nobody’s listening. Nobody’s out there pounding on all of our doors saying, ‘we need help’ other than the ones right now that are in desperate and dire need. Again, we have a lot of problems. But you’d think we have problems. We start and continue to lose these farmers that we have in this country, and we continue to eat to trash that is sent in from these foreign countries. We’re gonna have many, many more problems.
It’s a big deal because there’s not one state in this country that doesn’t deal in farming in some capacity. Not one state. We’re all involved in it. We all have skin in the game. Agriculture is the backbone of who we are. And what we are. And if we’re gonna continue to be the place that everybody wants to move to, to be a part of, and not a third world country, like a lot of these places that we’re allowing to ship food into, and from, we’d better wake up. Now for some reason, the past administration either didn’t understand the importance of agriculture or our farmers or put it bluntly. They really didn’t give it down about it, to be honest with you. Instead, they were focused on outsourcing our food, our lumber, or fish, anything to do with farming or agriculture. We, for some reason, we’re turning over everything to people outside our country.
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