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The day SCOTUS defined subsistence agriculture as interstate commerce was the day "states' rights" became a complete joke. The Court decided that Filburn's whe
by NewJazz 4y ago
The day SCOTUS defined subsistence agriculture as interstate commerce was the day "states' rights" became a complete joke.
The Court decided that Filburn's wheat-growing activities reduced the amount of wheat he would buy for animal feed on the open market, which is traded nationally, is thus interstate, and is therefore within the scope of the Commerce Clause.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
Oh you grow your own food so you don't contribute to the profits of huge conglomerates? Not without the Feds' permission!