Well, howdy there internet people, it's bow again. So today we are going to talk about

farmland. We're going to talk about US farmland and China and investment and numbers and statistics. and

numbers and statistics and acres and all kinds of things

all to determine who really owns

U.S. farmland.

D'An-T-T-T-A.

We're going to do this because we've got a message.

And it's a good way to talk about one specific set of claims and hopefully if you apply these

principles you can end up debunking a whole bunch of them on your own.

Since you're going over memes, a big one around me

is that China is buying up all the farmland in the US

and will control our food supply if there's ever a war.

My uncle is convinced the Chinese are buying the land to starve us.

He says they're buying millions of acres and will own us.

There are tons of unsourced memes about this. What's the truth?

Okay, so you have to start with the stuff that you can verify. Is China buying millions

of acres of farmland farmland of agricultural land?

No, no. They are buying hundreds of thousands of acres though.

So there is that.

And that's normally the way I've seen this is not with millions but with

hundreds of thousands.

Okay so China according to the last numbers I saw, which were last month, China owns

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