Farming was once the cornerstone of the American economy people grew food and then brought it down to a farmers market to feed a whole town or two. Farmers were simply not able to produce enough to feed a large number of cities by themselves and there were talks of joining forces. However today’s food industry has gotten to that point there are few companies that have a network of farmers that work together to produce america’s food. Within these farming or meat packing companies there are massive farms and factories that produce almost all of food. In fact 12% of the worlds farms produce 85% of the worlds food. This would be unheard of in the 1970’s but advances in agricultural technology have created tools that made it easy. The downfall of this system is that it takes a lot of control out of the hands of farmers. They have no say in how their farm is set up and are stuck with the bills when corporations decide its time to upgrade. Making farming a job that is in very low demand because of both the conditions and the pay.
I wanted to know if this applies as a good intro. I’m trying to make the reader focus on the idea of decline of farmers.
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