Farming is Being
Attacked in 50 Ways:
This is already affecting our food supply: our limited choices, how much we spend, the worsening food quality– and it threatens Americans’ food security.
We identified 50 different ways that farming, ranching and our food are being attacked.
How many were you aware of? Check the list below, learn how it affects your family’s food, and see what needs needs to be done to preserve and restore healthy farms and food.
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A Union for Farmers
The American Farm Bureau Federation, supposedly the main lobbyist and support for American farmers, in fact stiffs the farmer in favor of the Big Ag corporations.
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Alpha-Gal Syndrome
An allergy to red meat is spreading via ticks, and two bioethics professors think the spread should be encouraged to save the planet.
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America’s Race to the Bottom in Food Quality
Why does our nation’s food quality keep getting worse?
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Beef Industry Consolidation
Four companies process and control almost all US beef. Beef industry consolidation has been terrible for ranchers and consumers.
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Bill Gates’ Mysterious Land-Grab
Bill Gates is now the top owner of farmland in America.
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Bird Flu
How a mild virus was turned into an existential threat to the egg and dairy industries. Farmers were badly harmed, while major egg companies saw record profits.
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Checkoff Corruption
What is a checkoff, and what does it have to do with dinner?
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Conservation Reserve Program: When the farmer just can’t win
The federal government pays farmers not to farm for several years, entering their land in a conservation program. Then the state decides the farm is not a farm, imposing a huge tax burden.
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Crop Insurance
A boondoggle for wealthy farmers and insurance companies. Taxpayers spend billions on it, but 47% goes to private insurance companies, and small farmers can’t get in on it.
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Dairy Consolidation
US government dairy policies drive small farms to ‘get big or get out’ as monopolies get rich.
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Dam Removal
Dams are being eliminated, taking away the ability to irrigate farmland and changing the way of life for locals.
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Dead On Arrival
Millions of animals die during transport to slaughterhouses each year due to consolidation in the meatpacking industry.
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Deceptive Labeling
The “natural” label on foods is meaningless. How deceptive labeling hurts organic farmers and tries to get out in front of conventional competitors.
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Dicamba Drift Has Poisoned Millions of Acres
Despite two federal courts banning Dicamba, EPA is trying to bring it back.
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Difficulty Sourcing Seeds
… Unless you want the GMO kind.
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Distribution of Farms
There has been an extraordinary consolidation of farming in just five years: what happened between 2018 and 2023?
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Eminent Domain
The seizure of farmland for government or businesses purposes has increased since 2005.
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Falling Profits
Net U.S. farm income went down 23% between 2022 and 2024. Total farm sector debt climbed to $542 billion.
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Farm Loans
Farmers have to bet the farm on their yearly farm loans, just to stay in business. Federal loan programs don’t help most farmers.
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Farmers are Aging Out
One-third of farmers and ranchers are over age 65. There is no one to replace them.
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Financializing Nature Itself
“Ecosystem Services” and Natural Asset Companies. What could go wrong?
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Food Without Nutrition
The U.S. government pays farmers to grow food depleted of nutrients. There is a great contradiction between U.S. food subsidies and U.S. dietary guidelines.
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Foreign Ownership of U.S. Land is Increasing
When foreign owned corporations buy U.S. farmland, it is bad for farmers and bad for food security.
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Geoengineering
Are military programs interfering with the weather, to the detriment of farmers, ranchers and the rest of us?
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Government Subsidies
Farm subsidies mainly benefit the wealthiest farmers.
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Grocery Store Consolidation
Today, the four biggest grocery chains sell more than half the food in America. It’s bad for farmers and bad for consumers.
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Hog Industry Consolidation
A lose-lose for American farmers, their communities and consumers.
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Latest Animal Infection
Farmers are at the mercy of arbitrary government edicts if their animals get an infection.
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MAHA Strategy Pullback — Promises Made: Will they be kept?
The MAHA Strategy to Assist Farms and Rural America has been watered down, and antitrust enforcement is under pressure.
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Meat Monopoly
How USDA rules and corporate control stifle independent farmers and your food choices.
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Methane
The narrative that we must give up meat and dairy to reduce cow burps (and possibly reduce global temperature by 1 degree Centigrade) has gone into high gear in other countries. Will the U.S. be next?
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Mislabeled Meat
Cheap imported beef and pork has been mislabeled as “Made in USA” for the past ten years, cheating consumers and American farmers.
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Monsanto’s Lies
Monsanto ghostwrote the “science,” leading farmers to ignore safety precautions and consumers to eat much more of the toxic weedkiller glyphosate than is safe. Except we don’t know how much, if any, is safe, because so much of the “science” was manufactured by Monsanto.
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New World Screwworm
How the government’s unpredictable response to outbreaks threatens farmers’ livelihoods.
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Organic Label Cannot be Trusted
Fraudulent imports, sanctioned illegal industrial operations, and inefficient oversight are crushing U.S. farmers and ethical businesses.
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Paraquat
Farmers risk Parkinson’s Disease, pulmonary fibrosis and other injuries from Paraquat use.
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Poultry Industry Consolidation
Farmers and consumers are left with very few good options.
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Reinvention of Food
What will farmers be asked to produce next? Will there be no need for farmers in our ‘Brave New World’? The World Economic Forum, UN and WHO demand the reinvention of food.
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Restricting Local Meat
Many small farmers and ranchers have trouble finding an available facility to slaughter and process their livestock and poultry.
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Rice Farmers Under Attack
Global organizations have been central to creating a narrative about looming disasters allegedly due to releases of methane and nitrogen from rice farming.
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Right to Repair
Farmers should have the right to fix their own tractors (and everything else).
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Risky Pesticides — What You Are Not Being Told
Federal regulation of pesticides is inadequate and has failed to investigate any hazards of their use in combination. Farmers are at a 50% higher risk for Parkinson’s Disease than the rest of the population.
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Soil Health
The federal government fails at encouraging farmers to improve their soil. How federal subsidies can boost soil health for better food and real sustainability.
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Suicide
U.S. farmers face a suicide rate 3.5 times higher than the general population, a stark indicator of the intense stress in agriculture.
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Toxic Sewage Sludge
Many farmers followed EPA recommendations and spread sewage sludge on their land as fertilizer. Now their land is contaminated with toxins and may not be usable.
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Unfair Foreign Competition
U.S. farmers have had to compete with Mexican-produced fruits and vegetables, despite farmworkers in Mexico earning only about $2/hour. There have been three decades with zero tariff price protection for fruit and vegetable farmers.
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US is a Net Food Importer
The United States, the world’s largest food exporter, imports a huge amount of the food Americans eat.
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War on Raw Milk
Why are we forbidden from drinking what humans have consumed for thousands of years?
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What’s wrong with the USDA?
Captured by agricultural industries, the USDA no longer helps small family farmers. Its perverse incentives have redirected US agriculture to grow heavily treated corn and soy for ultra-processed foods and industrial purposes, rather than healthier foods.
