50 Ways Food and Farmers are Being Attacked

America has lost 8% of its family farms in the last seven years. We import $50 billion more food than we raise. The system is breaking — here’s how we can fix it.

Click on the images below to learn about the 50 ways farmers and food are being attacked:

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.

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.

Beef Industry Consolidation 

Four companies process and control almost all US beef. Beef industry consolidation has been terrible for ranchers and consumers.

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.

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.

Dairy Consolidation

US government dairy policies drive small farms to ‘get big or get out’ as monopolies get rich.

Dam Removal

Dams are being eliminated, taking away the ability to irrigate farmland and changing the way of life for locals.

Dead On Arrival

Millions of animals die during transport to slaughterhouses each year due to consolidation in the meatpacking industry.

Debt

Farmers are more and more indebted. They may be land rich, but they are increasingly cash poor. If they can’t find a lender to refinance, they lose their land.

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.

Eminent Domain

The seizure of farmland for government or businesses purposes has increased since 2005.

Falling Profits

Net U.S. farm income went down 23% between 2022 and 2024. Total farm sector debt climbed to $542 billion.

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.

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.

Geoengineering

Are military programs interfering with the weather, to the detriment of farmers, ranchers and the rest of us?

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.

Meat Monopoly

How USDA rules and corporate control stifle independent farmers and your food choices.

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…

Mislabeled Meat

Cheap imported beef and pork has been mislabeled as “Made in USA” for the past ten years, cheating consumers and American farmers.

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…

New World Screwworm

How the government’s unpredictable response to outbreaks threatens farmers’ livelihoods.

Organic Label Cannot be Trusted

Fraudulent imports, sanctioned illegal industrial operations, and inefficient oversight are crushing U.S. farmers and ethical businesses.

Paraquat

Farmers risk Parkinson’s Disease, pulmonary fibrosis and other injuries from Paraquat use.

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…

Restricting Local Meat

Many small farmers and ranchers have trouble finding an available facility to slaughter and process their livestock and poultry. 

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.

Right to Repair

Farmers should have the right to fix their own tractors (and everything else).

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.

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.

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.

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…

US is a Net Food Importer

The United States, the world’s largest food exporter, imports a huge amount of the food Americans eat.

War on Raw Milk

Why are we forbidden from drinking what humans have consumed for thousands of years?

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…