{"id":1534310,"date":"2022-07-01T07:19:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T11:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1534310"},"modified":"2022-07-01T07:19:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T11:19:28","slug":"rep-stefanik-introduces-bill-to-prevent-adversaries-control-over-us-agriculture-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-stefanik-introduces-bill-to-prevent-adversaries-control-over-us-agriculture-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Stefanik Introduces Bill to Prevent Adversaries\u2019 Control Over US Agriculture Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frep-stefanik-introduces-bill-to-prevent-adversaries-control-over-us-agriculture-industry%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1534310&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) introduced a bill to address domestic food security issues and the global <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-food-supply\">food supply<\/a> chain.<\/p>\n<p>Stefanik\u2019s bill, joined by Rick Crawford (R-Ark.), \u201cwould prevent adversaries\u2019 acquisition of American companies amid a global supply chain food shortage,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/stefanik-bill-prevents-foreign-adversaries-targeting-us-agriculture-industry-amid-global-food-shortage\">Fox News<\/a> reported on June 30.<\/p>\n<p>Stefanik also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepStefanik\/status\/1542535797357924353\">wrote on Twitter<\/a>\u00a0June 30, \u201cFood security is national security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said, \u201cI am proud to work to prevent our foreign adversaries from taking any ownership or control over the U.S. agriculture industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stefanik said, \u201cAdversarial nations, like China, continue to threaten our homeland, using tactics like buying American agriculture companies and stealing agriculture research to undermine our economy,\u201d Fox News reported.<\/p>\n<p>In the proposed legislation, Stefanik included a provision that would make the Secretary of Agriculture a member of the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment and would require reporting from the secretary to address the national security risk of \u201cforeign purchases\u201d of companies in the agriculture sector.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in June, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem\u00a0wrote for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/food-farm-national-security\">Fox News<\/a>, \u201cChina is buying up millions of acres of land across the United States, following the same blueprint they have used in other countries for years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/06\/29\/kristi-noem-1200x776.jpg\"><\/a> South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem speaks to attendees at the NCGOP convention in Greenville, N.C., on June 5, 2021. (Melissa Sue Gerrits\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>One example would be China\u2019s Fufeng Group\u2019s purchase of 370 acres of land in Grand Forks, North Dakota\u2014\u201cthe largest single private capital investment in the region\u2019s history\u201d\u2014as the location for a massive new corn-milling plant, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/chinese-agribusiness-poised-to-open-factory-in-north-dakota-draws-scrutiny-over-ccp-ties-security-risks_4287001.html?slsuccess=1\">The Epoch Times<\/a> reported in February.<\/p>\n<p>Ross Kennedy, founder of Fortis Analysis, told The Epoch Times the regime has become \u201cvery involved in major infrastructure projects\u201d around the world in recent years, noting that some of their chosen locations have been \u201cregions of strategic and national security importance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> The Pressing Food<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) introduced a bill to address domestic food security issues and the global food supply chain. Stefanik\u2019s bill, joined by Rick Crawford (R-Ark.), \u201cwould prevent adversaries\u2019 acquisition of American companies amid a global supply chain food shortage,\u201d Fox News reported on June 30. Stefanik also wrote on Twitter\u00a0June 30, \u201cFood security is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1534310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1534310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1534310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1534310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1534310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}