Food is now grown under mass monoculture systems of what is called Agriculture.
This is the madness of monoculture…
The Earth’s soil is depleting rapidly, at more than 13% the rate it can be replaced.
Massive amounts of chemicals and sprays are need to keep food growing.
How is that agriculture?
Monoculture is now being extended into the very seeds we use to grow food.
We have lost 75% of the world’s crop varieties over the last century!
Monsanto want to reduce that even more!
How is that agriculture?
Over recent years, we’ve had hundreds of millions of tons of herbicides, pesticides, pollutants and chemicals dumped onto crops, polluting our soil and waterways.
How is that agriculture?
More than one million chickens are kept at any one time in intensive warehouse conditions.
Pig farms can house several thousands of pigs at a time.
How is that agriculture?
In many of these pits of despair the animals never see sunlight or touch earth.
Is 20,000 pigs in a warehouse now called Pig-Farming??
How is that agriculture?
The quality of life for those animals in factory farming is so horrid, that many people cannot bear to look.
How is that agriculture?
“Beginning in the fifties and sixties, the flood tide of cheap corn made it profitable to fatten cattle on feed-lots instead of on grass, and to raise chickens in giant factories rather than in farmyards.
Iowa livestock farmers couldn’t compete with the factory- farmed animals their own cheap corn had helped spawn, so the chickens and cattle disappeared from the farm and with them the pastures and hay fields and fences.
In their place the farmers planted more of the one crop they could grow more of than anything else: corn.
And whenever the price of corn slipped they planted a little more of it, to cover expenses and stay even.
By the 1980s the diversified family farm was history in Iowa, and corn was king.”
