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Food prices are rising, and many Americans are suffering. South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem issued a sober warning for President Joe Biden regarding our national food supply.
She told Biden to be aware and wake up to the very real national security threat of foreign entities buying up our food supply.
”Our food supply is our national security policy. It just is. For years, I’ve been watching foreign countries, other entities that are not friends of the United States, buy up our fertilizer companies, our chemical companies, our processing systems, and those entities,” she said in a Newsmax interview.
”Now we see other people buying hundreds of thousands of acres of land; and, listen, many times it is foreign entities in some of these states as well. So we have countries like China that own all these different pieces, and they’re not dummies.”
“So this is a national security policy issue that the American people need to be aware of.”
The U.S. is losing control of its food supply by allowing these transactions, she continued.
”We’ve always had in the United States of America a priority of keeping safe and affordable food supply that’s diversified, so one person or one country doesn’t control it,” she said. ”We are losing that. We’re losing that on Joe Biden’s watch, and it is a concern for us, our country, and for those families out there that are looking to feed their kids every week when they go to the grocery store.”
Noem was also asked if she would be the Vice President candidate in 2024.
She responded, ‘I don’t really play in hypotheticals,” she said. ”What I’ve said, though, is that if President [Donald] Trump runs, I certainly will support him. His policies were great for our country. You know, I think that it’s important that people recognize that leadership has consequences. All you have to do is go from state to state to see the consequences of who was sitting in that governor’s office, and all of us should be evaluated by the decisions that we made.”
Noem also spoke of her time as governor during the pandemic.
‘Those were unique times, unprecedented times. And in many of those decisions, I stood alone,” she added. ”But it was right for our constitution. It was the right decision then and now, and South Dakota’s thriving because of it. I’m so proud of our state and what we did together.”
She also stated that she is running for re-election in South Dakota.
“You know, I’m running for reelection here, to stay and be the governor of South Dakota. So I hope that people here want to keep me.”
”I think we’re thriving here and bringing a lot of hope to this country, and it would be incredible if I could get the opportunity to continue to serve the folks here.”
