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Leilani, I am LDS and while I agree with your sentiment and acknowledge that I can’t see the future, it’s still unsettling. I’d so much rather have it in the hands of locals looking to homestead or farm and support their own families or families very nearby. In fact, it’s what we’re taught, to be self reliant. So it’s hard to reconcile when these conglomerates (outside of the Gospel it teaches the church is in fact a huge business) come in and rise prices inevitably with these huge purchases seemingly making it less amd less likely families will be able to afford it for themselves and their own sustainability.
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Much rather have LDS Church purchasing and doing good all over the World then land being sold to China!! China buying up left and right!! In the USA
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That was my thought exactly and most of the LDS lands are affirmed and used for services and donations.
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There is little difference to the Producers, Counties, State or Nation as to how these absent landowners holdings adversely are affected…..
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Most everything grown on the church farms is given to hungry people all over the country and world.
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The LDS church isn’t using this land to grow crops and feed the poor. These are for profit investments. It will be rented to Nebraska farmers. The money is then reinvested in buying other investments. The land and the rents are not being used to feed the poor. Only a very small portion of the LDS church’s farm land is used to feed the poor.
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Travis. You have no idea what you saying. The majority of the LDS real estate is used for services, donations and the poor in the United States and around the world. The LDS church will grow foods for all religions and non religious people everywhere. They are in the business of helping God’s children everywhere. And that’s the bottom line with the LDS church.
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Travis. You have no idea what you saying. The majority of the LDS real estate is used for services, donations and the poor in the United States and around the world. The LDS church will grow foods for all religions and non religious people everywhere. They are in the business of helping God’s children everywhere. And that’s the bottom line with the LDS church.
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Investment for rentals or growing food. If the church is renting the land to locals, it’s not going to China and locals can still farm. If the church is farming the land, it’s providing jobs or help to the world. In Washington, the church owns more land than Bill Gates. The option is becoming share with the world, control the world, or provide population control. Who would you rather have buy the land?
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How can the church continue to feel more people in it’s welfare program? Either it buys more farmland or they pay high prices for food.
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…to continue with what Brittney said. She isn’t telling you why the church would buy land. One reason is so that they can farm to help others in the world. China’s motives…control! The Church…to give! That is a huge difference!
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Well said!
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Small farmers aren’t making it anymore. The LDS Church feeds those who can’t feed themselves. I feel that is a good thing.
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I 100 % believe the same thing!! Worry more about China!!
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Neither does the LDS Church, they don’t grow organic, byodynamic foods, face it…they are AS bad as China…they are in bed with China which is exactly why they’ve met up with the UN and all these globalist leaders, don’t think they care about their people, the more money they invest the more they make, their doos aren’t safe of any dangerous chemicals either…despite how wealthy they are, they don’t actually try to practice anything organic or byodynamic. If you care so much about people you’ll care about the quality of food you help them with, they have trillions of dollars, look into this, you’ll see
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Sir, you don’t know what you are talking. about! You are just horribllizing.. wait and see!
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And how, EXACTLY, would you know this information? This is not true. Post your proof rather than just stating something that some moron told you and now you’re moron enough to repeat it.
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And you know this how?
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Wendy way out of line, the church gives so much to people and will do good things with this land.
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Are you crazy, last report I saw had nearly 74% of all foods labeled organic in stores, even whole foods, we’re loaded with chemicals. Don’t try to pass off that talking point as anything but stupidity.
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I don’t particularly like the lds church but if if you think they are as bad as China you’re very ignorant or very delusional. Think back to the baby food scandal, if they are ok with poisoning infants just how much toxins are they putting in other food. I will always support Americans owning American land over the Chinese owning it, and at least it’s being used as farmland not turned into mega subdivisions.
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LDS in bed with china? are you crazy/ Our GOV. is in bed with china the democrats are in bed with china. LDS church has been persecuted by the GOV since they established driven out of the county only to be begged to come back. if you care about the people as you say why are the farmers selling to the LDS church? Sell to another farmer you have that option, oh that’s right they care about themselves more money sell to higher bidder not for principal. Hippocrates.
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You obviously have no idea what your talking about!
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Oh Wendy,
Do you have personal knowledge about the use of harmful chemical the church supposedly use? Have you visited a church farm to see how they operate? If so please share here. Just because you hear something from people, does not make it true. We need facts not accusation.
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You know nothing of the LDS church. An organization that sends out millions of humanitarian aide throughout the world. You never hear about it because of the news but they’re in countries hours. Secondly, after working at their raisin farm and receiving help. I know it works. Lastly, don’t make comments you know nothing about.
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Thanks Bradley. For 2 years I “worked” at an LDS store house run by the Mormon,LDS. You can’t imagine the amount of food GIVEN to people, even military who have a hard time making enough. From mops to eggs and cheese & fresh produce was given. Also, abt 100 turkies donated.
Also worked @ helping employ 100s of those who looked for work. Please available yourselves to the humanitarian work of the LDS. The effort is world wide. All work is voluntary. LDS in Africa is amazing.
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I agree. Which has our best interest at heart? In the bed with China? This needs some explaining.!!
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It’s not going to raise prices. The food that the church grows, is not sold on the open market. It’s used in the Bishop’s storehouse for those who are trying to become self reliant. Either personal storage or those in need.
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The church has a bigger mission than that. Yes, we are taught to be autonomous, so that we don’t have to rely on the church. But we have many more brothers and sisters that need help around the world. The mission of the church is to help globally. It’s going to take a lot of farmland to accomplish that goal. Which is a far better goal than trying to fatten your own pocket book like Ted Turner.
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The LDS church will be a great neighbor, and as stated in other comments, the small farmers and ranchers will benefit from the church being there. As for the small family farms, most families have those to provide for themselves, not the masses. We have a 39 acre farm in Missouri and though we raise our own beef, pork, rabbit meat, Scottish Highland milk, our farm is a tax deduction. It’s never made us a profit. It is small, so expenditures are always more than revenue, ever year, it’s why my son-in-law and I still have full time careers. Yes, we are a multigenerational family with 12 people (4 generations) in our farm home.
. . . and yes, we are active members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.This article is just about Nebraska, the church owns one of the largest cattle ranches in Florida in that state. It’s why the church can provide millions if not billions of humanitarian aide around the world.
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China owns lots of farm land here and in lots of countries and they farm to take it back to China a
.. why are we doing business with them .. they will pollute the ground because they are not going to sell it here ..
The church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints has never denied people needing food .. they have a bishop storehouse that is amazing and is for everyone in need not matter their religion or denomination.. is all done through volunteers .. if there is an earthquake guess who donates food to the red cross to other countries to people here at home that lost their job .. why is the Union so against it .. who is he representing.. who did he vote for what does he stand for .. I will like to know more about where his thoughts are coming from .. just watch the Chinese, Bill gates and soros purchase the land under someone else name for their own gain .. crazy world we are living in .-
No, COMMUNIST China, an arm of that Dragon Satan, through leader Xi, has and buys the farmland around our U.S. military bases — most likely NOT TO FARM IT, but according to our Pentagon and government, who have surmised that it is to SPY on us TO LEARN OUR MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, so that the Communists can use it against our military and our country to overcome us and bind us into slavery like they have their own citizens and now they have done to Hong Kong in taking away their individual freedoms and of commerce also ! They are the enemies of our democracy, agency, and freedoms. God did not intend America to be owned by foreign powers, but it is our greedy citizens who allow such evil foreign takeovers to harm us and our country’s God-given Democracy which are given us through our United States Constitution, which God inspired to be written for our safety now, by righteous God-fearing men, For our protections NOW in these Latter Days on this land for our citizens well-being, if we support it through Voting good people into our Federal and State governments who support the Constitution !
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The answer is neither.
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The Federal gov’t owns 250 million acres of land.
2.04 million acre of farms on 900 million acres. Ted Turner owns 2 million acres. Bill Gates 240,000 acres. John Malone owns 2.2 million acres. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints owns 1.7 million acres of land about 50% is farm land or 850,000 acres of farm land. .
There are better farm issues like
1) Seed monopolies (Monsanto, DuPont, Dow, Syngenta control over 50% of the world’s seed supply. That’s a real farm issue.
2) 85% of meat packing from four companies (Tyson, JBS, Cargill, and NBPC). That’s a real farm issue.
3) Paraquat made by China, sold by China in US, but banned in China. Paraquat increases Parkinson’s 500%.
4) Pesticides and Herbicides increase cancer and food allergies.
5) If the US went Organic Food like it’s gone Solar and EV’s, would we save $1 trillion in health care? We spend $1 trillion on food and $4 trillion on health care.
Our good farmers take a beating from farm chemicals. Many die from horrific cancers and brain diseases. These are real farm issues. Not churches buying farms.
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I agree. Which has our best interest at heart?
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Leilani, you’ve committed the logical fallacy of creating a strawman. An argument against the corporate LDS Church buying Nebraska farmland is not an argument in favor of Chinese ownership of that land and nobody is trying to make that argument. The argument is that the LDS Church does not have an interest in the effects of its financial decisions on the average, everyday Nebraskan. The land is better off under the control of local farmers.
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Don’t kid yourself. They are both insidious organizations with the same motive—power and control.
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I’m LDS all my life here’s what I think. If something terrible happens the LDS Church will do everything they can to feed EVERYBODY. THE Y DO NOT WANT YOU TO STARVE! Money is not the object feeding starving people is! If something terrible happens they will try to get everybody in the area that they can to help feed the poor. I’m a old guy now. When I was young I worked in LDS canneries for free producing canned food for the poor. It was a lot of fun. I learned a lot from the other volunteers. Example: we made jam in Washington, State. One guy was with the FBI, another was the college president, another was Gorden Smith a US congressmen, and his wife, engineers from Hansford nuclear site. I was a USDA food inspector. All kinds of other people men, women some unemployed. It was a lot of fun! Good way to spend a Saturday. Plus when we were through we smelled like berry jam so fun!
Who would you rather have the land?
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints or China?
Would China grow healthy food for human consumption?
I think not.