and mega-producers such as Chinese owned "Smithfield Foods is owned by WH Group, a Chinese company that acquired it in 2013 for approximately $4.7 billion. This acquisition made Smithfield the largest pork producer in the world, controlling a significant portion of the U.S. pork supply."
which put out of business thriving family farms that produced pork. My own brothers went through this devastation of their livelihoods, reduced to driving truck for Smithfield.
Before that however, even US mega corps put out of business many family farms.
A travesty! Where there used to be 100 family farms supporting small towns all across America, now there are a few mega-farms of many acres planted for mega-equipment.
The small town had a hardware store that stocked about anything the rural farm family needed! From Stihl products and service to . . . to about everything else. Screens, every type of home cleaning and improvement supplies. NOW those rural residents have to drive 30 miles or more to a Wal-Mart. Is that the America we want?
I appreciate innovation and efficiency, but I appreciate freeholders more. America must have room for the freeholders, who own their own land and are able to make a living.
Some farmers, near to cities, have created niche products for restaurants and local farm markets. More power to them, and the educated consumers who appreciate these products!
So devout are the freeholders, that many make a living with a town job, and farm for the love of the land and to preserve their ownership of it.
and mega-producers such as Chinese owned "Smithfield Foods is owned by WH Group, a Chinese company that acquired it in 2013 for approximately $4.7 billion. This acquisition made Smithfield the largest pork producer in the world, controlling a significant portion of the U.S. pork supply."
which put out of business thriving family farms that produced pork. My own brothers went through this devastation of their livelihoods, reduced to driving truck for Smithfield.
Before that however, even US mega corps put out of business many family farms.
A travesty! Where there used to be 100 family farms supporting small towns all across America, now there are a few mega-farms of many acres planted for mega-equipment.
The small town had a hardware store that stocked about anything the rural farm family needed! From Stihl products and service to . . . to about everything else. Screens, every type of home cleaning and improvement supplies. NOW those rural residents have to drive 30 miles or more to a Wal-Mart. Is that the America we want?
I appreciate innovation and efficiency, but I appreciate freeholders more. America must have room for the freeholders, who own their own land and are able to make a living.
Some farmers, near to cities, have created niche products for restaurants and local farm markets. More power to them, and the educated consumers who appreciate these products!
So devout are the freeholders, that many make a living with a town job, and farm for the love of the land and to preserve their ownership of it.
May GOD BLESS them!