It seems like so many American farmers are losing the battle against the genetically modified foods and corporations. Which means we are losing the battle against eating healty and sustaining our own food. What do you forsee in the future?
2006-10-17 04:15:52 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Being certified organic means the company paid to have that certificate. Many local companies and farmers cannot afford this certificate. It doesn't mean much.
2006-10-17 04:27:14 · update #1
The future is obvious 3rd World Corporate Agriculture will replace the American Farmer.
I find this the most paradoxical of all the Republican Agenda's The American Farmer consistently votes Red State. Yet the Corporate Policies of GOP backed Multinational Agra-business have consistently eroded the family farm. ADM and it's minions have bought up blocks of land evicted families the same as during the Great Depression. And the farmers still line up on election day and vote for the very men that are destroying the American Farmer.
I'm all for voting for the candidate of your choice But the farmer I just don't understand. Why vote for the one that is killing you
Go big Red Go
2006-10-17 05:32:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The answer is easy, but the solution is a bitter pill. To attain the goal you desire, we need to have 5 billion people die, today. Their is no such thing as a sustainable organic agricultural solution to a growing population. Yields are to low, the associated increase in plant toxicity (see mycotoxins) and the phosphorus pollution problem resulting from the overuse of an unbalanced nutrient solution (aka manures, ashes) will keep this proposed solution from ever becoming a successful option with the current population, much less a growing one.
2016-05-22 08:39:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A sustainable agriculture isn't subsidized, and I don't see the government cutting down on pay-outs to farmers.
It should be that the crop the farmers are planting reaps a very real profit, but in a global market this is hard to do unless you can farm something that other's aren't.
2006-10-17 04:26:34 · answer #3 · answered by dane 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We make 60% of the world's food on about 20% of its resource use per year. What is more sustainable than that? You people in the sustainable agriculture crowd are closet Luddites who don't realize that the only thing "sustainable agriculture" sustains is starvation level food production.
2006-10-17 04:26:16 · answer #4 · answered by Crusader1189 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Recent trends show a move towards more organic farming practices,even the large corporate farms are racing to be certified ..and I welcome this.
EDIT: I disagree the farmers must comply with strict regulations, this means no pesticides,herbicides or other poisons towards are environment,thus sustaining our environment.
2006-10-17 04:24:10 · answer #5 · answered by dstr 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Conglomo running the entire agriculture inductry
2006-10-17 04:24:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Our agriculture IS sustainable. Where did you get the idea that it's not? What are you smoking?
2006-10-17 05:33:11 · answer #7 · answered by yupchagee 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Prediction by me: More and more Americans in the next couple of years are gonna start waking up to what that word "sustainable" means when you anti-capitalists use it. And they ain't gonna want ANY part of it, given a choice.
2006-10-17 04:23:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋