Why Industrial Agriculture Won't Feed Us
Does it make you uneasy to learn that our dairy foods are controlled by three companies, corn seeds by two companies, and 90 percent of our beef by three companies?
In 2008 more food was grown than ever before in history. In 2008 more people were obese than ever before in history. In 2008 more profit was made by food companies than ever before in history. And in 2008 more people went hungry than ever before in history.
Tomorrow's agriculture will need to be much more regionally controlled and locally adapted, and will need a diversity of approaches to meet the challenges of resource scarcity. We believe responsible, small scale agriculture is critical, and currently, a largely missing key to a responsible economy.
Cheap food is going to be popular as long as the social and environmental costs of that food are charged to the future. There’s lots of money to be made selling fast food and then treating the diseases that fast food causes. One of the leading products of the American food industry has become patients for the American health care industry.
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