Zach Lahn

And so what's one of the ways you can strip away sovereignty is to have them have an insecure food base in the state.

You can't feed yourself how you're sovereign.

And it's gotten, you know, Sean, it's gotten very bad to this point.

You know, I'll be in these debates with people about the use of agrochemicals and things like that.

And when I'm in them, they keep talking about this idea that, well, we need this to produce food.

We need glyphosate, for instance, to produce food.

And what they're not discussing is that in my state of Iowa, 0.03% of our acres are used to produce anything that will end up on your plate in its original form.

Could you say that again?

How much?

0.03% of our acres.

Out of 24 million acres, it's roughly 9,000 acres in Iowa, is used to produce any produce, food, that will end up on your plate in its original form.

It's like, so they have, they're producing ethanol.

They're, uh, and, like, we can talk about these things, but they're producing feed that will then be shipped out of state for animals and shipped out of our country for animals.

Iowa has the best farmland in the world, I would say, and we import 95% of our food.

There's a big movement of people that want to see, you know, homesteading and smaller farms crop up.

But when you have out-of-state investors that are coming in and buying up land and jacking up the price of land, there's not one young person that can afford to get on land.

Yeah.

And so your statistics, I look at it from even a different perspective.

I look at it from this perspective, that aging population of farmers...

They're on break-even margins now because they're being extorted by big agriculture companies that continue to raise their prices even as commodity prices stay the same or drop.