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When farmers are wearing hazmat suits, something has gone wrong. Food should be nourishing, not toxic. Chemical fertilizers are necessary because of genetic engineering, which is necessary because of pesticides, which are necessary because of monocropping. Instead of relying on failed practices that benefit special interests, we should start with nature. Healthy ecosystems are self-generating. We don’t need to reinvent what we already know. Trying to cheat nature by bio-disturbing the ecosystem is like playing whack-a-mole. Since it’s not a holistic solution, the problem crops up somewhere else, and it requires another quick fix, and another, until we lose our instinct to grow food.

Factory Farms: Corporations want to control the market completely, using synthetic techniques. Grafting an apple tree to a rootstock is not the same thing as splicing a cow’s utter with a spider’s web. Breeding dogs is not the same thing as mating a horse with a donkey, which produces an infertile mule. The inability to reproduce is a natural backstop against further degradation. Splicing species that can’t reproduce naturally is illegal in most countries because of the cross-species contamination that causes birth defects and disease. 

Small Farms: Undisturbed food is healthier, and it looks better. The community can celebrate it’s own fresh fruits, vegetables, and livestock. The experience of harvesting food, and knowing where it came from, is socially and spiritually rewarding. The community can’t be held hostage by global shortages and high prices. Everything is local, so there’s no supply chain. There’s no need for preservatives or highly processed food.

When farmers are wearing hazmat suits, something has gone wrong. Food should be nourishing, not toxic. Chemical fertilizers are necessary because of genetic engineering, which is necessary because of pesticides, which are necessary because of monocropping. Instead of relying on failed practices that benefit special interests, we should start with nature. Healthy ecosystems are self-generating. We don’t need to reinvent what we already know. Trying to cheat nature by bio-disturbing the ecosystem is like playing whack-a-mole. Since it’s not a holistic solution, the problem crops up somewhere else, and it requires another quick fix, and another, until we lose our instinct to grow food.

Factory Farms: Corporations want to control the market completely, using synthetic techniques. Grafting an apple tree to a rootstock is not the same thing as splicing a cow’s utter with a spider’s web. Breeding dogs is not the same thing as mating a horse with a donkey, which produces an infertile mule. The inability to reproduce is a natural backstop against further degradation. Splicing species that can’t reproduce naturally is illegal in most countries because of the cross-species contamination that causes birth defects and disease. 

Small Farms: Undisturbed food is healthier, and it looks better. The community can celebrate it’s own fresh fruits, vegetables, and livestock. The experience of harvesting food, and knowing where it came from, is socially and spiritually rewarding. The community can’t be held hostage by global shortages and high prices. Everything is local, so there’s no supply chain. There’s no need for preservatives or highly processed food.

When farmers are wearing hazmat suits, something has gone wrong. Food should be nourishing, not toxic. Chemical fertilizers are necessary because of genetic engineering, which is necessary because of pesticides, which are necessary because of monocropping. Instead of relying on failed practices that benefit special interests, we should start with nature. Healthy ecosystems are self-generating. We don’t need to reinvent what we already know. Trying to cheat nature by bio-disturbing the ecosystem is like playing whack-a-mole. Since it’s not a holistic solution, the problem crops up somewhere else, and it requires another quick fix, and another, until we lose our instinct to grow food.

Factory Farms: Corporations want to control the market completely, using synthetic techniques. Grafting an apple tree to a rootstock is not the same thing as splicing a cow’s utter with a spider’s web. Breeding dogs is not the same thing as mating a horse with a donkey, which produces an infertile mule. The inability to reproduce is a natural backstop against further degradation. Splicing species that can’t reproduce naturally is illegal in most countries because of the cross-species contamination that causes birth defects and disease. 

Small Farms: Undisturbed food is healthier, and it looks better. The community can celebrate it’s own fresh fruits, vegetables, and livestock. The experience of harvesting food, and knowing where it came from, is socially and spiritually rewarding. The community can’t be held hostage by global shortages and high prices. Everything is local, so there’s no supply chain. There’s no need for preservatives or highly processed food.

When farmers are wearing hazmat suits, something has gone wrong. Food should be nourishing, not toxic. Chemical fertilizers are necessary because of genetic engineering, which is necessary because of pesticides, which are necessary because of monocropping. Instead of relying on failed practices that benefit special interests, we should start with nature. Healthy ecosystems are self-generating. We don’t need to reinvent what we already know. Trying to cheat nature by bio-disturbing the ecosystem is like playing whack-a-mole. Since it’s not a holistic solution, the problem crops up somewhere else, and it requires another quick fix, and another, until we lose our instinct to grow food.

Factory Farms: Corporations want to control the market completely, using synthetic techniques. Grafting an apple tree to a rootstock is not the same thing as splicing a cow’s utter with a spider’s web. Breeding dogs is not the same thing as mating a horse with a donkey, which produces an infertile mule. The inability to reproduce is a natural backstop against further degradation. Splicing species that can’t reproduce naturally is illegal in most countries because of the cross-species contamination that causes birth defects and disease. 

Small Farms: Undisturbed food is healthier, and it looks better. The community can celebrate it’s own fresh fruits, vegetables, and livestock. The experience of harvesting food, and knowing where it came from, is socially and spiritually rewarding. The community can’t be held hostage by global shortages and high prices. Everything is local, so there’s no supply chain. There’s no need for preservatives or highly processed food.