Small Farmers Deserve More Developing decades after World War II, industrial farming made its way to almost all of America’s farmland. Today, research has shown that industrial farming is not healthy for our environment and for a matter of fact for us. By supporting our small local farmers it could improve not only our health but our society as well. The research given to us by scientists suggests that industrial agriculture is an unstable way for farmers to produce food over long periods of time due to the certain pesticides and other harmful chemicals used in the process of growing crops. Not only is this harmful to us and our environment but these big corporations are making it extremely hard for small farmers to create
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One of the things we see when dealing with industrial food production is monoculture. This meaning they are growing single crops thoroughly on a large scale. This can not be good to produce one crop with extreme efficiency because if you continue to grow one crop on the same plot of land the soil gets depleted of the nutrients that it takes to grow that certain plant. Some of the crops that are grown this way in the United States are corn, wheat, soybeans, cotton and rice. To get those nutrients back in the soil they use harsh chemicals and fertilizers to replace them. Not only do monoculture farms use harsh fertilizers but they also use pesticides because these fields are extremely attractive to weeds and pests. That is why using chemicals on the food we consume isn’t the healthiest option for us. In Pollan’s essay, Unhappy Meals he states, “The American food system has for a century devoted its energies and policies to increasing quantity and reducing price, not to improving quality.”(Pollan 13) This low-quality food being produced by industrial farming heavily impacts our health and that is why it shouldn't be about increasing quantity and reducing prices but about if it is healthy for us to
One of the things we see when dealing with industrial food production is monoculture. This meaning they are growing single crops thoroughly on a large scale. This can not be good to produce one crop with extreme efficiency because if you continue to grow one crop on the same plot of land the soil gets depleted of the nutrients that it takes to grow that certain plant. Some of the crops that are grown this way in the United States are corn, wheat, soybeans, cotton and rice. To get those nutrients back in the soil they use harsh chemicals and fertilizers to replace them. Not only do monoculture farms use harsh fertilizers but they also use pesticides because these fields are extremely attractive to weeds and pests. That is why using chemicals on the food we consume isn’t the healthiest option for us. In Pollan’s essay, Unhappy Meals he states, “The American food system has for a century devoted its energies and policies to increasing quantity and reducing price, not to improving quality.”(Pollan 13) This low-quality food being produced by industrial farming heavily impacts our health and that is why it shouldn't be about increasing quantity and reducing prices but about if it is healthy for us to