Industrial farming even those who grow USDA organic are not producing a vegetable or meat that is fit for consumption. We are what we eat. If the ground is soaked in human waste than so are the vegetables. If the animals are scared then the milk and the meat is soaked with adrenaline.
The independent and family farms are being wiped out because they can not compete with the industrial farms' lower retail prices.
Because of this price gap people are buying industrial farmed produce, dairy and meat which are low in quality since USDA organic regulations are lower than the original goal of the organic movement.
USDA regulations allow for farming to be done with human feces used in the fertilizer.
Human feces is considered a bio hazard is not allowed in our water systems.Yet.
But USDA regulations allow it to be used in classified 'organically grown' produce.
No kidding.
One by one the independent and family farms are having to sell the land they live on and sacrifice their hearts that for so long they invested in the harvest, their animals and the soil.
The industrial farms don't have a history or a love for the land -but the love of money- then the land goes unloved.
If the land and the independent farmers and their families divorce the back bone of a quality wholesome life deteriorates.
THE GOAL
To collect news from family farms in all 50 states.
To collect news about industrial farms in all 50 states.
To learn with others ways to support our family farms.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
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