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<blockquote data-quote="badaxemoo" data-source="post: 302347" data-attributes="member: 3926"><p>Thank you. I'm glad somebody has the guts to say it. Modern industrial agriculture is built like my oldest hay rack. One good kick and the whole thing will fall apart.</p><p></p><p>Modern agriculture relies on externalities.</p><p></p><p>We grow 200 bushel corn and poison aquifers with nitrates and pesticides. </p><p></p><p>We raise-finish meat animals in confinement which results in strains of bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics.</p><p></p><p>We wash topsoils that took eons to form down the river in a half century.</p><p></p><p>Farmers (corporate or otherwise) shouldn't be able to enhance their bottom line at the expense of the environment and the public shouldn't benefit from cheap food at the expense of a sustainable rural economy. </p><p></p><p>Cheap food hasn't helped farmers and I would argue it hasn't helped American consumers either (watch the film Supersize Me or read Fast Food Nation).</p><p></p><p>The odd thing about this board, as someone mentioned earlier is that I bet many of the producers here farm sustainably, and yet they defend the economic system that will eventually swallow them whole.</p><p> </p><p>I'd recommend Michael Pollan's book <u>The Omnivore's Dilemma</u> to anyone who is interested in food (either producing or consuming it). I enjoyed the section on beef, but found the opening chapters on corn to be the most shocking.</p><p></p><p>Instead of the "Get Big or Get Out" conventional wisdom, we should be saying "Get Sustainable or Get Out".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="badaxemoo, post: 302347, member: 3926"] Thank you. I'm glad somebody has the guts to say it. Modern industrial agriculture is built like my oldest hay rack. One good kick and the whole thing will fall apart. Modern agriculture relies on externalities. We grow 200 bushel corn and poison aquifers with nitrates and pesticides. We raise-finish meat animals in confinement which results in strains of bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics. We wash topsoils that took eons to form down the river in a half century. Farmers (corporate or otherwise) shouldn't be able to enhance their bottom line at the expense of the environment and the public shouldn't benefit from cheap food at the expense of a sustainable rural economy. Cheap food hasn't helped farmers and I would argue it hasn't helped American consumers either (watch the film Supersize Me or read Fast Food Nation). The odd thing about this board, as someone mentioned earlier is that I bet many of the producers here farm sustainably, and yet they defend the economic system that will eventually swallow them whole. I'd recommend Michael Pollan's book [u]The Omnivore's Dilemma[/u] to anyone who is interested in food (either producing or consuming it). I enjoyed the section on beef, but found the opening chapters on corn to be the most shocking. Instead of the "Get Big or Get Out" conventional wisdom, we should be saying "Get Sustainable or Get Out". [/QUOTE]
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