Sad Truth
“When farmers are going broke, it’s wrong to expect them to reform the system,” asserts Wendell Berry in an interview with The Sun, “In fact, there are too few actual farmers left to reform anything… Reform is going to have to come from consumers. Industrial agriculture is an urban invention, and if agriculture is going to be reinvented, it’s going to have to be reinvented by urban people.”
This is why we, as consumers, need to support our local farmers as much as possible. If we eschew, en masse, the Agribusiness’ products, perhaps we can begin real change.
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