On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “The Bottom Line,” Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) reacted to the arrest of two Chinese nationals for allegedly attempting to smuggle a biological pathogen into the U.S. by saying that the food supply chain would be a good place to inject disease and this is why China and other adversaries need to be banned from owning farmland and having access to the food supply chain.
Zinke said, “I think we should be very, very concerned…I don’t believe it’s by coincidence. One is the military sites, but also agriculture as part of our supply chain, if you’re going to inject funguses, disease into our water supply, where would you do it? You’d probably do it in our supply chain in our food chain. And remember, food security is national security. So, I don’t think it’s by coincidence, I think we should be concerned, and I think we should prohibit the Chinese and our adversaries from owning farmland and having access to our supply chain in our food supply.”
Absolutely. In Accomac County VA CAFO poultry farms were allowed to drill wells into the deep water aquifer without the required permitting.Residents finally got the attention of the state, but the response was “no harm, no foul” and a blanket after the fact approval was given. Many are concerned about potential foreign ownership.
I hope that Accomac County VA will be scrutinized. Lots of alarming rumors including the super-sized poultry farms that illegally drilled into the deep water drinking aquifer.