Corporate Farming and Food Insecurity
Ethical, sustainable agriculture and corporate interests are just not compatible. In Canada, the bulk of our farmland is dedicated to monocropping, cash crops we don’t even eat. More and more farmers are leaving the business, selling their land to developers or their farm to large corporations. The results are an increase on food imports and higher prices at the grocery store.
Ashley, a newbie Farmer and Socialist talks about her experience starting and running a non-profit farm despite all of the recent trends that would have small farms disappear. With hosts Jessa McLean and Santiago Helou Quintero they talk about the impacts an aging farming population, sprawl, monocropping, GMO seeds and the notorious agricultural Market Boards have on farmers, our environment and our food supply.
It becomes clear that cooperative, not competitive agriculture is the only solution.
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