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Military Industrial-Complex Corn Farm

@sam
August 17, 2025

The USA is just a military-industrial complex corn farm for those in power. The corn serves the military-industrial complex first, then other ethanol industries, then cattle feed, and finally civilian feed injected into all our food products—all from the same toxic source.

Corn Farm Country

In the USA, the way sugar and corn are managed by government policy created a systemic divide in sweeteners. Through tariffs and quotas, the government has deliberately kept sugar prices artificially high, ensuring that cane and beet sugar remain expensive and limited.

This has the side effect of making “real sugar” a kind of premium ingredient, reserved for niche products, seasonal offerings, or imports like Mexican Coca-Cola. Meanwhile, the broader population was shifted onto high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), not because it was seen as higher quality, but because it was cheaper, abundant, and politically supported.

Corn itself is one of the most heavily subsidized and protected crops in the U.S., serving as a backbone not just for human consumption, but also for animal feed, ethanol fuel, and industrial uses. This meant that the infrastructure for mass-producing corn syrup already existed, making it the logical “everyday” sweetener.

Over time, the powerful corn lobby and large agribusinesses entrenched this system further, ensuring that corn stayed dominant in the food economy. The result is a two-tier reality: cane sugar marketed as a higher-end or nostalgic product, while most Americans consume HFCS as the default—a situation shaped less by consumer choice and more by the political strength of farming interests and systemic government policy.

Most U.S. corn is not grown to feed people directly but as an industrial commodity. Roughly 40% goes to animal feed, another 35–40% becomes ethanol fuel, about 10% is exported, and only a sliver ends up in human food. Even then, it usually arrives not as whole kernels but as high-fructose corn syrup, refined starches, oils, or other additives. This means Americans don’t eat corn so much as they consume its processed residues, stripped of nutrition and engineered for shelf life and profit. In this way, corn’s dominance in the U.S. diet is less about natural abundance and more about policy and industry choices that favor cheap, unhealthy inputs over genuine food.

Glyphosate Is In All U.S. Food

Glyphosate—the active ingredient in Roundup and the most widely used herbicide in the U.S.—is tightly linked to the corn industry because most U.S. field corn is genetically engineered to tolerate it (“Roundup Ready” corn). While regulators like the U.S. EPA maintain that glyphosate is “safe when used as directed,” a growing body of research has connected glyphosate exposure to a range of health risks.

However, the U.S. EPA maintains glyphosate is not likely to be carcinogenic and safe at current exposure levels. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) recently (2023) reaffirmed no clear cancer risk at permitted exposure levels, though critics argue assessments rely too heavily on industry studies. On the other hand, the IARC (WHO) classifies glyphosate as probably carcinogenic—making them a direct threat to evil.

Even though the EPA and EFSA are murdering scum, multiple juries have sided with plaintiffs alleging glyphosate caused their cancers, citing evidence not fully considered by regulators.

Roughly 90%+ of U.S. corn acreage is genetically engineered to tolerate glyphosate, making corn a major contributor to glyphosate exposure in ecosystems. Glyphosate residues are frequently detected in corn products, cereals, and animal feed, raising dietary exposure concerns. The heavy use of glyphosate in monocultures also promotes resistant “superweeds,” leading to even higher application rates, increasing human and environmental exposure.

In a 2007 U.S. Geological Survey, pesticides were found in every stream and over 90% of wells tested. About 94% of U.S. corn planted in 2024 is genetically modified, primarily used for animal feed, ethanol, or processed derivatives—not direct human consumption like sweet corn.

Advocacy groups argue that U.S. regulators have inadequately studied the health impacts of GMO corn—particularly risks tied to insecticidal toxins and glyphosate residues—and that some safety assessments are based more on industry claims than robust science.

Military industrial-complex land

The United States is not just a corn farm—it is a military industrial-complex, where every major system is built first for military necessity—in the direction of those with power who bought government—and only later opened to civilian use. The interstate highways, celebrated as a symbol of American freedom and mobility, were originally designed under Eisenhower as a continental mobilization grid. Their routes, their redundancies, and their massive funding were justified on the grounds of defense, with civilian road trips merely an afterthought. The same is true for airports, ports, pipelines, and energy grids: they are structured so that tanks, troops, oil, and weapons can move with efficiency in a crisis, while the daily commuter only uses the shadow of this vast martial skeleton.

Communications follow the same logic. The cell towers and satellite systems we depend on to text and scroll were never built with civilian chatter in mind; they were designed for surveillance, command, and targeting. GPS itself, the invisible hand guiding every rideshare and delivery app, began as a strictly military tool, and only decades later were its signals allowed to be precise for public use. The internet, too, began as ARPANET—a defense project. Even when private companies lay fiber or sell smartphones, they are building atop an infrastructure whose first loyalty is not to consumers but to command and control. Civilians merely get access to the residue.

Science itself is caught in the same gravitational pull. The myth of an open, democratic pursuit of knowledge breaks apart under the weight of capitalism and corporate trade secrets. Famous physicists warned these trade secrets and classifications strangle real discovery, keeping breakthroughs hidden under the veil of “national security” or locked away in private vaults as patents. Civilian science becomes a kind of theater: fragmented, incremental, always a few steps behind what is actually possible. Researchers are made to circle endlessly around problems already solved elsewhere, while the frontier of knowledge is reserved for defense contractors and corporations whose findings never reach the public.

In this structure, the civilian population becomes a liability to be managed. They are fed corn, both literally and figuratively. Their diets are loaded with toxic substitutes, their media with short bursts of stimulation, their education with fragmented modules that reward consumption rather than comprehension. Attention spans are trimmed to match the rhythms of advertising and product cycles, ensuring that citizens are better consumers than thinkers. The science they are taught is “civilian science”—a diluted, accessible version of knowledge that keeps them productive but never dangerous to the order of things. The infrastructure of the United States, from highways to cell towers to the very circulation of ideas, serves the military-industrial complex first. Only the scraps, the cast-offs, and the controlled fragments are left to the public.