For
the better part of the past century Western pop culture has
systematically denigrated and devalued what should be the most honored
profession of all. Those who labor with the land, day-in and day-out, to
deliver the food that we eat have assumed a social status too often
similar to the dirt of the soil they till. No one stops to ask a simple
question: What do we do when we have killed off all our farmers?
Some of the more naïve city-dwellers
would retort with little reflection, “But we have industrialized food
production; we don’t need manual farm labor today.”
Indeed, the numbers are impressive.
Let’s take my homeland, the United
States of America. In 1950, a time of general prosperity and strong
economic growth, the total US population was 151,132,000 and the farm
population was 25,058,000 making farmers just over 12% of the total
labor force. There were 5,388,000 farms with an average size of about 87
hectares. Forty years later, in 1990, the year the Soviet Union
collapsed and the Cold War ended, the USA had a total population of
261,423,000 of which the farm population numbered just under three
million, 2,987,552, making farmers a mere 2.6% of the total labor force.
The number of farms had shrunk to only 2,143,150, a loss of 60%, but
because of industrial concentration, average size was 187 hectares.
Rockefeller’s Agribusiness Revolution
What we are told, those of us whose
relation to meat, dairy, fruits and vegetables ends at the supermarket,
is that this is a great progress, the liberation of almost 23 million
farm workers to get city jobs and live a better life.
It isn’t that simple.
We are not told the true effects on food
quality that has been created by the mechanization and
industrialization of food production in America since the Harvard
Business School, on a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, began what
they termed “agribusiness,” the conversion of our food supply into a
pure for-profit vertically integrated business modelled on the
Rockefeller oil cartel.
The raising of hogs, dairy cows, beef
cattle, chicken all became industrialized gradually after the 1950’s in
the USA. The baby chicks were confined to spaces so tiny they could
barely stand. To make them get fat faster, the owners would pump them
full of antibiotics and feed them a diet of GMO corn and soya meal.
According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, 80 percent of all
antibiotics sold in the United States are for use on livestock and
poultry, not humans. The majority are given to animals mixed in their
food or water to speed growth. After all, time is money.
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