Our government has not completely destroyed farmers and ranchers, but they have definitely decimated them. Many family farms either got bought up by big corporations, went bust, or switched to alternative uses of their land to keep afloat.
My family farm had been in my family in Georgia since before the Revolutionary War, but they quit farming traditional crops and switched to growing and harvesting tree's when the government started directly interfering with their ability to farm starting in the later 1970's, and then more so in the 90's.
Perhaps our current government will make it possible to revitalize those farms, and incentivize newer generations to start farming. We are seeing billions of dollars being invested in business and manufacturing, so it makes sense to see some invested in real food production: Farms, Ranches, Dairies, etc...
As far as organic, that is how my family farmed for generations. They did not believe in chemicals. There are plenty of ways to deal with pests without pesticides, etc...
Corporate farming doesn't care about that, nor the environment. all they care about is profit, no matter the cost. They are not real farmers.
Our government has not completely destroyed farmers and ranchers, but they have definitely decimated them. Many family farms either got bought up by big corporations, went bust, or switched to alternative uses of their land to keep afloat.
My family farm had been in my family in Georgia since before the Revolutionary War, but they quit farming traditional crops and switched to growing and harvesting tree's when the government started directly interfering with their ability to farm starting in the later 1970's, and then more so in the 90's.
Perhaps our current government will make it possible to revitalize those farms, and incentivize newer generations to start farming. We are seeing billions of dollars being invested in business and manufacturing, so it makes sense to see some invested in real food production: Farms, Ranches, Dairies, etc...
As far as organic, that is how my family farmed for generations. They did not believe in chemicals. There are plenty of ways to deal with pests without pesticides, etc...
Corporate farming doesn't care about that, nor the environment. all they care about is profit, no matter the cost. They are not real farmers.
I love our small farmers. When I was in WA, I shop in small farms all the time. The south are mostly meat farm and I am 90% vegetarian.