The last people I would want to harm are the hard working productive people on family farms who feed us.I see them as trapped in a system in which they are forced to utilize industrial techniques as they see no other way to remain financially viable.I know the history of the emergence of fertilize factories from the gunpowder factories of WWI,and the emergence of modern insecticides from the same factories that produced the organophosphates used to kill a large number of the 25 million young men killed in WWI.
I also know that if you go out into those repeatedly plowed, fertilized , and poisoned fields,and test the soil,you will find greatly reduced living biomass-very low carbon content, rare earth worms, disrupted microbiologic systems.
Fertility is held in soil and made bioavailable by living organisms.Without them much of the fertilizer is washed through the soil,and into the rivers and groundwater along with the insecticides,fungicides,herbicides,necessary to maintain large monocrop fields without huge amounts of labor.Because of our financial system, the cost of living has risen to the point that labor intensive jobs of all kinds are gone.You cannot produce by labor if the cost of living is too high to pay a living wage and be profitable.So the relatively few family farms remaining struggle along,forced to use what they see as the only way to survive.They borrow vast amounts of money from the banks who create the money out of thin air.Tractors, fuel, chemicals etc have sky rocketed in price, but they are often selling their commodities for prices that I remember from the 1970's.If we continue as we are going, I fear that the bankers and Bill Gates will own them all.Correcting the situation first requires understanding what is happening.I am still learning.I welcome constructive criticism.Only idiots think they are always right.
