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Farmer-Rick

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1. The US is moving rapidly into corporate farming and factory farm models
Mon Nov 25, 2019, 10:20 AM
Nov 2019

Humane, healthy and sustainable farming is disappearing because the small guy can't compete with the brutal, diseased and destructive farming practises of the filthy rich who own the million acre farms or devise abusive contracts for intensive animal farming.

It's soooooo much easier to farm if you don't give a crap about the damage you are doing, with your chemicals and lazy methods, or the pain you are influcting on the animals you are about to slaughter.

Filthy rich farming practises are taking the humanity out of farming.

When I farmed for a living, there was this sense of connection, a feeling of protectiveness towards the land and the animals I raised. It was a feeling that I was being entrusted to care for a small piece of the universe. I bet you 90 percent of farmers today no longer feel that.

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