Neil Young @ Farm Aid 2016 Press Conference - COMPLETE

Here is complete video of Neil Young at the Farm Aid 2016 Press Conference held on September 17 at [Giant Corporation] Amphitheatre in Bristow, Virginia.

Neil Young speaks plainly about the corrupting influence of money in politics and the devastation it has wrought to the family farmer community. Neil says: "Eating good food is the revolution."

Thanks to Howell Posner of Howell Media for videography and tour management!

Carolyn Mugar, Willie Nelson, Neil Young & John Mellencamp
Farm Aid 2016 Press Conference - September 17, Bristow, VA

Neil Young
Farm Aid 2016 Press Conference - September 17, Bristow, VA

TRANSCRIPT: Neil Young @ Farm Aid 2016 Press Conference

We have just begun. This is a revolution. And we will look back on this one way or the other in ten or fifteen years and see what folks like this are doing. We recently have seen giant corporations that are selling for billions and billions of dollars that are joining together and we heard just a few minutes ago about how somebody was eating bad food and got sick and had to take a lot of drugs and now they are eating good food and are starting to not take so many drugs. And you have to notice that one of the biggest drug companies on the planet and one the largest pesticide providers on the planet, Monsanto and Bayer, have just joined together.

And if our government lets them do this and we can’t stop it with the regulatory laws then we’re going to have them working together. And this is what you’re up against. This is a huge thing. That’s why you really are heroes. Because these are huge corporations and they don’t want you to give your food to the people. They want to give you their seeds and they want to control you. And they want to sell the food that has been degraded. And they want to sell it – and drugs – at the prices that allow these giant corporations to support each other. It’s so big that you can hardly see it. People don’t really believe that this is really happening. But it is happening and our politicians and our government, especially our president, is behind it. And it is something that needs to be addressed at our level where people can do things for themselves, where people take back their own rights. You have a right to the land. You can grow your own food.

There’s another video coming up with someone in it who is so happy just to be growing food in their neighborhood. And it’s a beautiful thing. These people are empowered because they’ve made it possible to feed their own families with food that they grew like their grandma’s did. And we can’t lose that. This is the critical part. These are revolutionaries, these people. This is a huge thing. It’s just starting to take hold. So, you know, try to make sure when you buy your food you’re supporting these kind of people, that you’re not buying from the corporations, that you’re not buying these huge loads of food that come in from God knows where in giant metal boxes and everything. Do not do that if you can figure out how to stop it. Support your friends and support the land and support the people that want to care for the land. The revolution starts with us. It starts with you and it starts with people like this.

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