[Argee]

Originally posted by admin

--- Hell, I would pay more for food if I knew that it was grown on small farms with safe and careful guidelines and helping to patronize families instead of MEGAFARM conglomerates....

That's is what a lot of small specialty farmers are praying for. When enough consumers get fed up with tasteless chicken, pork and beef, and when they're openly concerned, as you are, as to just what are they eating along with there beef, the pendulum will swing back in favor of the small farm.

This is a hot subject for me because it is the MEGAFARM conglomerates that are putting the squeeze on the small farmer. But now some of their greedy ways are coming back to bite them right in their greedy asses with all the press they're receiving on Ecoli and the like.

Look at Monsanto patenting corn seed. Just so you'll have to buy it from them, and that's just the tip of the iceberg...It was hte Monsantos' of the world that got the farmer dependent on manufactured fertilizers for production that caused them to loose sight of good land stewardship......I'll stop for now because I could go on and on and on and on.:furious:

 

[Argee]

John Ikerd Paper

Below is a link to a paper written by John Ikerd, Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri, that I think will shed light on both sides of the issue. I think it was written in the mid 90's. We've pretty much done this to ourselves.

http://www.ssu.missouri.edu/faculty/jikerd/papers/BRSM1-95.htm