I recommend Supermarket, USA, by Shane Hamilton, a grand book that details the role that supermarkets played in the Cold War. The author calls it the Farm Wars. Not as deadly as the nuclear bomb, but apparently a lot more effective. In the 50s, the U.S imported a fully functioning supermarket into Tito’s Yugoslavia. It was mightily impressive to […]
SARAH VOGEL THE FARMER’S LAWYER
x SINGLE MOM LAWYER TAKES DOWN THE USDA The midwest farm sector in the 1980s experienced the worst crisis since the Great Depression. Some of downturn was due to bad weather and some of it was general economic conditions. Most of the destruction was caused by Ronald Reagan and his free-market presidency. Reagan’s minions deliberately dismantled the agricultural financial support […]