By Raymond P Poincelot, Jim Horne, Maura Mcdermott
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But it goes beyond economics. Running agriculture this way has a moral cost, too. Not only are farmers being exploited, but the animals are as well. The short lives of these animals have no dignity; they are confined in tiny spaces and treated more like inanimate objects than living creatures. Those viewing the transportation of CAFO chickens to market—jammed one on top of the other with no room to move—must ask themselves if cheap chicken is worth this. At some point, our society has to decide whether it wants to apply the industrial model to every enterprise—whether, in fact, we want animals to be “manufactured” like VCRs and farmers to be like factory workers.
I wonder what kind of agriculture would we have today if we had asked different questions and researched different solutions? Perhaps we would have an agriculture that would have been productive, yet kinder to the earth, its wild creatures, and the small farmers who are, as Jefferson said, the most precious part of the state. INDICTMENT III Industrial agriculture stands accused of desolating rural America by bankrupting farmers and ignoring the well-being of rural communities, thus leaving them open to exploitation.
S. 26 These two major crops indicate the extent of fertilizer use. With the advent of cheap, easy-to-use fertilizer, old methods of enhancing soil fertility, such as planting a legume (bean) crop in rotation with other crops, fell out of favor. ) Other petrochemicals such as herbicides, which kill weeds, are almost as liberally used; since World War II farmers have become ever more reliant upon them. In 1988, 96 percent of corn acres were sprayed with herbicides (up from 79 percent in 1971), as well as 96 percent of soybean acres (up from 68 percent).