The American farmer is vanishing — and the government is to blame



When Americans sit down for dinner or prepare their breakfast, seldom do they ask themselves where their food comes from. And unfortunately, the farmers who have kept them fed for generations may be going extinct.

Brian Reisinger, a fourth-generation farmer himself and author of "Land Rich, Cash Poor: My Family's Hope and the Untold History of the Disappearing American Farmer,” is seeing firsthand the economic and cultural crisis that’s threatening America’s food supply.

Rick and Bubba of the “Rick and Bubba Show” grew up in rural Alabama, and this hits close to home.

“We were an agricultural society, and boy, have we moved away from that,” Rick tells Bubba. “And unfortunately, it’s as if the farmer has, like Brian says, disappeared.”


“I like to say we’re not only losing the farms that feed us — which is true, this affects food prices, the security of our food supply, all kinds of economic issues — but we’re also losing a part of ourselves because this is a big part of our American values and a big part of who we are as a people, and it’s slipping away,” Reisinger agrees.

While Reisinger grew up learning from his father how to be a farmer himself, it’s a way of life that most Americans are now divorced from.

“It’s a beautiful way of life,” he tells Rick and Bubba. “I grew up working with my dad from the time I could walk.”

“The values, things you learn, you get up at sunup to work with your dad, and you do it till sundown. You come in at odd hours. The barn, when there’s a cow having a hard time delivering her calf, and you see your dad help deliver that calf and you see the calf take its first life breaths, you learn about the circle of life,” he explains.

“Not everybody has to grow up on a farm, we don’t have to force everybody to do that, but we’re losing this to such a degree that I really think it’s affecting our culture,” he adds.

But this isn’t happening just because the culture has changed.

“We come out of the depression, when the disappearance first started happening,” Reisinger explains, noting that the government “had all kinds of programs that were meant to control the price and the supply.”

“They had farmers leaving land idle. They had animals slaughtered. They did all kinds of things to try to bring the supply down and the prices up,” he continues, adding, “Our government began just piling more programs on top of one another.”

The government has continued to attempt to control farmers and their land while allowing foreign governments to buy farmland as well.

“It’s one of many things that our country allows that other countries don’t allow us to do,” Reisinger says. “The issue that we face with that is the incredible pace of foreign ownership of farmland.”

In just two years, foreign-owned farmland in the U.S. increased by 15% — and China is one of the biggest owners.

“That’s alarming,” he adds.

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'There is nothing feminists hate more than family' — and the Sunday Times’ article on Ballerina Farm PROVES it



When Liz Wheeler first heard about the hugely popular homesteading influencer Hannah Neeleman, more commonly known as Ballerina Farm, she didn’t pay much attention to the hype, as it seemed to revolve around inconsequential matters, such as Neeleman competing in a beauty pageant 12 days postpartum.

But in the wake of the Sunday’s Times recent defamatory article “Meet the queen of the ‘trad wives’ (and her eight children),” Liz has gleefully hopped on the Ballerina Farm bandwagon.

“I'm all about this woman,” she says, lambasting the author of the Times piece, Megan Agnew, as a “bitter, agenda-driven, man-hating, disrespectful, derogatory feminist.”

And when you read even a handful of the remarks Agnew made about Neeleman and her family, it’s easy to see that Liz’s anger is righteous.

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The author “deliberately, falsely portrayed Hannah as unhappy, falsely portrayed her marriage as unequal, falsely portrayed her children as annoying, falsely portrayed her life as unfulfilled, her life as fake because Hannah's life is family. And there is nothing feminists hate more than family,” says Liz.

In the article, Agnew took jab after jab at Daniel Neeleman, Hannah’s husband, painting him as the domineering alpha-male type. Liz cites the following excerpt as an example:

“Our first few years of marriage were really hard, we sacrificed a lot,” she says. “But we did have this vision, this dream and —” Daniel interrupts: “We still do.” What kind of sacrifices, I ask her. “Well, I gave up dance, which was hard. You give up a piece of yourself. And Daniel gave up his career ambitions.”

I look out at the vastness and don’t totally agree. Daniel wanted to live in the great western wilds, so they did; he wanted to farm, so they do; he likes date nights once a week, so they go (they have a babysitter on those evenings); he didn’t want nannies in the house, so there aren’t any. The only space earmarked to be Neeleman’s own — a small barn she wanted to convert into a ballet studio — ended up becoming the kids’ schoolroom.”

The passage captures the tone of the entire article.

“Cultural hegemony” is what Liz sees when she reads Agnew’s insults.

First coined by Marxist Antonio Gramsci, founder of the Italian Communist Party, cultural hegemony refers to how a governing body captures various institutions in order to shape and control the culture, the end goal being that the governing class’s worldview becomes the cultural norm.

“The Marxist left cannot stand if a man and a woman are happily married, if they are fulfilling traditional gender roles — the woman is having babies, the husband is providing and running a business — if they're homeschooling their children, if they are happy,” says Liz.

If you need further proof, look no further than Agnew’s brazen acknowledgement of her irritation at not being able to get Hannah Neeleman alone.

“I can’t, it seems, get an answer out of Neeleman without her being corrected, interrupted or answered for by either her husband or a child. Usually I am doing battle with steely Hollywood publicists; today I am up against an army of toddlers who all want their mum and a husband who thinks he knows better.”

“What an absolutely nasty article,” says Liz in disgust, adding that the piece proves that “feminism is a pernicious fraud that hates women.”

“When women choose to be feminine — like Hannah Neeleman — choose to be wives, choose to be mothers and actually like it, feminists' heads explode.”

“Nobody will more viciously gut a happily married mother — who's happy with those choices — than a feminist who thinks nobody should be allowed to be fulfilled by doing what God created women to do,” Liz condemns.

To hear more of her analysis, watch the clip above.

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'I thought I was a good person': Actor Adrian Grenier explains why he left 'shady' Hollywood for his own farm in Texas

'I thought I was a good person': Actor Adrian Grenier explains why he left 'shady' Hollywood for his own farm in Texas



Actor Adrian Grenier revealed that he left Hollywood for a life in his own farming community in Texas after years of a "hedonistic" lifestyle.

The former "Entourage" star sat down with Jordan Peterson for an honest conversation about his life as a self-indulgent actor that eventually led him astray.

Grenier explained that from the outset, he wasn't too keen on reaching a high level of fame early in his career.

"I could be a lot more famous than I am today, but I just I always rejected — there's something that I just didn't trust in Hollywood. I was always like, it seems shady, it seemed shady, and so I resisted," he told Peterson in the interview.

The actor achieved success early in his career, starring in movies like "Drive Me Crazy" and "The Devil Wears Prada" that earned him "a little bit of clout in Hollywood," but he mostly rejected a launch into stardom.

Grenier said that he was spending time in Mexico when his agent gave him an ultimatum: He needed to return to Hollywood or find new representation. That warning caused him to come back to the U.S. to audition for "Entourage."

This was essentially replicated in the television series and was one of many ways in which Grenier's real life was reflected in his character.

"It was more fun to blur the lines, because you start to acquiesce to people's wanting you to be the character," the actor told Peterson.

Grenier admitted that his wife had left him once before because of his lifestyle.

"I really just wanted pleasure, I was hedonistic, I was seeking the next hit," the 47-year-old explained. "I was open and poly, and liberal, and I thought I was a good person. I really did."

"She dumped me," he said of his now-wife, Jordan Roemmele. "In no uncertain terms [she] said, 'You are the worst.' She gave me a list; she was thorough. She was nice enough to give me a list. ... 'Take a look at how you're drinking, about how you're using sex, take take a look at all these things, see ya, lose my number.'"

Grenier recalled feeling like there had been a "glitch in the matrix."

"For a second I was like what, there was something off. How is it that this girl, she was young, here I am the the powerful, rich, famous person, who is justified in everything I'm doing because I also do charity, and she's leaving me?"

"I could give her everything, access, we could fly, we do everything. Go around the world, anything. And she's leaving me? That was weird, but I was like, 'All right, I'll find another girl, not a problem.' But it stayed with me and because I loved her and respected her so much."

A strikingly similar scenario played out in the final season of "Entourage." In the eighth season, Grenier's character, Vincent Chase, is enamored by a journalist who interviews him and writes an article critical of his sexual escapades and lack of serious relationships.

The character then goes to extraordinary lengths to prove to the woman that he is a good person. The two eventually leave to get married in the finale of the series.

In real life, Grenier said he spent a year and a half reconnecting with the future mother of his child.

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The actor said he spent most of his time split between his native New York City and Hollywood but has given up both lifestyles to live on his own land near Austin, Texas.

Grenier said he spent approximately a year living in a 50-square-foot camper on a small piece of land and created a community garden.

"I was just digging in the soil and planting and digging and working, meditating, and cooking in an open fire. I grew a beard, and then the pandemic hit, and I was like 'perfect,' I'm already solo in isolation; it didn't affect me at all."

From that point, Grenier later reconnected with the woman he referred to as the love of his life and decided buy a large plot of land. A YouTube channel called Earth Speed is secondary to the work he has done on his plot.

Farming, cultivating, and otherwise tending to his vast property, Grenier has invited others to live on the land while he continues to learn about how to create a self-sustaining environment.

This story is similarly reflected in the movie "Goodbye World," where the characters are forced to live off the grid in the countryside after a terror attack leaves society in the dark.

"I'm certainly definitely still an apprentice of the land," Grenier remarked. He noted that farmers and growers are eager to pass down their knowledge and encourages anyone interested in the topics to take them up.

"I'm just trying to keep things alive and learning about the snakes and how to wrangle them, and not try and kill everything that scares me, but try and move against it and be brave in those moments, and fail and still keep at it."

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