From Ed Fashing in the
Missouri AAM Newsletter: The Land of the Dinosaurs
Thinking about dinosaurs, Transnational Corporations (TNCs),
factory farms, huge family farms, vertically integrated corporations,
and businesses that steadily over expand violate common sense, their
expansion must eventually come to an end, but too late for most farmers.
Farmers were promised that problems would disappear with expansion of
foreign markets. Meanwhile the U.S., using food as a weapon, helping
foreign countries expand their food growing sectors, and giving free
food to foreign countries hurt U.S. farmers’ markets. This year food
imports will exceed food exports.
Nature has the ultimate answer. When a living cell
grows too big, the inability to effectively remove wastes triggers
changes that cause the cell to split into two cells. The ratio between
surface area and volume gets too low and water cannot be expelled
effectively through the outer surface.
Extra large cells and ones that reproduce too often
are called cancer and must be destroyed or death is almost certain to
the organism. Sometimes these cells spread throughout the body. Not only
does consolidation of corporations into monopolies and oligopolies hurt
producers and consumers, but also condemns corporations to death. As a
corporation grows, information takes too long to get to the CEO and
administrators; the organization becomes inefficient. With many smaller
corporations, markets are better served all around. Countries and
treaties face a similar fate with growing size. In the U.S., social
services are messed up because the paperwork, interagency interaction,
and number of employees are too massive for proper functioning. When the
dinosaurs got too big, a nerve center in their rear end appeared. These
modern corporate dinosaurs do not even have a second brain in their
rear! |
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