Corporation Farming

(Taken from the April 16th edition of The Wanderer:
"In 1940, Msgr. Luigi Ligutti and Fr. John Rawe, SJ, warned Americans in their book "Rural Roads to Security: America's Third Struggle for Freedom," that perhaps the greatest internal enemies of the American people were the giant corporations that were taking ownership of all the farmland in this country and were producing "food' that was not only bereft of nutritional value but was positively harmful.
'Corporation farming,' they warned,'will in time destroy itself with its mechanical methods in a field essentially biological, but before this stupidity will reap its empty harvest, our American families will be finally and completely uprooted from the soil...This last Octopus of Wall Street will drive the remaining families from the land.' And Pope Pius XII lamented in an address to Italian farmers, "Finance capital hastens to take over the deserted countryside, and the land then becomes not an object of loving concern but of cold, calculating exploitation...it no longer produces except for speculation.'"
Serious words to ponder in these days when most of us are so dependent on the goodwill of giant corporations and big government to be able to feed our families!