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Katie Britt: Fighting for Alabama’s family farms

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American family farms are under attack – both from within our very own country and from China.

On top of the inherent uncertainty that they already have to deal with, our nation’s family farms are now being undercut by Chinese-owned farms located within our borders.

Chinese agricultural investments abroad grew more than tenfold from 2009-2018, with the Chinese Communist Party supporting these investments in order to gain more control of the global food supply chain.

Unfortunately, this trend was especially pronounced right here in the United States. At the beginning of 2020, China controlled about 192,000 agricultural acres in America, worth $1.9 billion.

The problem goes beyond farmland, as well. Two of the four largest meat companies in the U.S. market are now foreign-owned: Smithfield and JBS.

However, it is not just the Chinese Communist Party putting America’s farmers in their crosshairs.

As Joe Biden continues to push Congress to pass his disastrous $3.5 trillion spending proposal, he is also trying to tax family farms across our nation into bankruptcy.

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