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