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Leesburg, Ohio | dirt: I agree with you on point #2...live and let live.
However, you make it seem like farmers are bad if they raise anything but a directly-consumed food product. Most of the so-called "industrial grains" grown gets fed to livestock, which is certainly "food".
Yes, we grow field corn on our farm, part of which goes to fuel/ethanol production. But even in that process, only the energy portion of the corn goes into ethanol. ALL the protein is left over, and is a very high-quality animal feed. Since we really do not have a feed-energy shortage in the world, but rather a protein shortage, one could say the energy used from corn to make ethanol really does not take away from the food supply at all.
The point is, most farmers ARE DIRECTLY involved in food production as the "first link in the chain", whether or not they are selling a finished food directly to a consumer. We are all in this together, like it or not, so why try to divide farmer against farmer by saying "you really do not grow food, so that means you are an (evil??) 'industrial' farmer???" In my humble opinion, WE ALL GROW FOOD. | |
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So we haven't had a good ol' organic vs non organic
