How America’s food giants swallowed the family farms

12 responses to “How America’s food giants swallowed the family farms”

1. sustainabilitea | March 15, 2019 at 6:46 pm | Reply

   This makes me sad and disheartened. We still own, with my brother, our family farm and one other, with excellent tenants and a farm manager, and there are still lots of small farmers in that part of Nebraska. But there are COFAs also. It’s a sad and difficult situation.

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2. GP Cox | March 16, 2019 at 3:47 am | Reply

   Here in south Florida, we had many family farms and a close-knit community. Now, it’s senior self-contained communities and nobody knows anyone any more.

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   • John | March 16, 2019 at 5:10 am | Reply

     An evolution of land use: by the time we realize the impacts of all the tradeoffs, it’s usually too late to go back. We as a society have given up many cherished qualities of life in exchange for money or efficiency, and those that notice are usually too old to be listened to.

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     • GP Cox | March 16, 2019 at 10:41 am |

       Sad – but true.

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3. JEG | March 16, 2019 at 5:46 am | Reply

   “Fatal Harvest”

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4. Julie Allen | March 16, 2019 at 11:26 am | Reply

   And to think we are paying for our own demise. What’s wrong with this picture?

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   • John | March 16, 2019 at 4:05 pm | Reply

     You know what’s wrong, Julie, short-sighted greed wrapped in red, white and blue. We’re living too far from our food.

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5. Dennis Samuelson | March 16, 2019 at 6:31 pm | Reply

   John,

   In case you’ve not seen this article.

   Warm regards from a loooong time follower of your posts. Dennis Samuelson

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6. Julie | March 16, 2019 at 11:09 pm | Reply

   Amen……….

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7. Julie | March 17, 2019 at 7:48 am | Reply

   Who knew “Amen” could sprout legs …… this “Amen” was actually supposed to follow John’s pithy summation of why rural areas are hollowed out by corporate factory farms. I would never give an “Amen” to this NYT article. Pains me to say it, but its shallowness made my skin crawl.

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   • John | March 17, 2019 at 8:03 am | Reply

     Attagirl! I purposely did not post the NY Times piece, but for the sake of journaling, it’s imbedded in these comments. My poem “AT Machi’s” https://drycrikjournal.com/2019/03/10/at-machis/#comments was in response to its condescension belaboring a mythic West, plus comments. It may have been a case of too many cooks spoiling the broth. Photography was horrid, journalism juvenile.

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8. Julie | March 17, 2019 at 9:00 am | Reply

   Oh yes—a high school biology specimen, you said. Spot on! I wondered how writers of usually decent prose had no shame as they crammed poetry into their left brained columns, entirely missing the point. The best poets of Elko don’t give a salacioius look at a much romanticized demographic; they instill a whole new way of perceiving the world for which I am daily grateful.

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