As "manufacturers and builders before, farmers are the target of urban aesthetes and green activists, who hope to impose their utopian vision of agriculture. This vision involves the closure of large farms and replace the EM science performed with a small organic gardens and urban households.
Concerns farmers who attack major move in the political sphere. Extends to the cut water, higher standards for the use of pesticides, the ban on caged chickens and movement increasingly prohibit the use of genetically engineered crops . And which could affect the sector performed well during the last decade and has excellent long-term prospects.
Over the next 40 years, the world will be about 3 billion people. These people not only want to eat, want to improve their consumption of protein, whole grains, fruits and vegetables. United States, the majority of agricultural land and agricultural development, benefit from growing markets of the thesis. Last year, the balance of trade in the agricultural sector of the United States has reached nearly $ 35 billion, compared with about $ 5 billion in 2005.
In general, the impact of agriculture on the economy far more than you think, my colleague Delore Zimmerman of Praxis Strategy Group. Approximately 4.1 million people directly employed in the production of agriculture, farmers, ranchers and workers, the goal of the industry directly or indirectly employs about one in six American workers, including those working in the food industry, marketing, delivery and supermarkets.
However, none of these seems to be slow growing criticism of "social farming". Article typical time called "Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food," attacked "American agriculture" for the filing of an ecological catastrophe. "With soil depletion, the impact of global climate and the increase in oil prices is inevitable - which will affect everything from fertilizer to supermarket electricity bills - our industrial style of food production, "the article provides" end sooner or later. "
Romantic model moves through time and intellectuals like Michael Pollan agricultural replay the concept of European companies and the Tolstoy family run by generations of farmers happy. This lens has very little to do with the essential spirit of American agriculture.
Already in the 19th century, Alexis de Tocqueville, American farmers indicated that their company is considered more of capitalist farmers. They sell their farms and move to other companies or businessman from other countries - a practice unknown in Europe. "Almost all farmers in the United States," he writes, "to combine trade with agriculture, most of them agriculture is to make an exchange."
Despite the perception of the company in the agricultural sector, the entrepreneurial spirit remains. Almost 96% of households have 2, 2 million of the national economy, including a majority of the largest spread. And small-scale agriculture, the actual reduction for many years, is on the rise from 2002 to 2009, the number of farms increased by 4%.
This trend towards small-scale specialized production of a positive trend, the major objective, scientifically advanced agriculture majority produces more food for an average family, and most of our exports. In general, organic foods and drinks are less than 3% of all food sales in the United States - just enough to feed the population, and especially hunger global growth.
Then there is the concept even more bizarre - Major D. Dixon Despommier Columbia - food production moving urban mass emissions. In a recent survey conducted by the New York Times, he said, we're running out of land and agriculture is necessary to remove the farm. Selon Despommier, "traditional model of agriculture based on soil developed over the last 12,000 years will no longer be a viable option."
However, Praxis Strategy Lephion Matthew, who grew up on the family farm, points out that these projects are not very worthy alternative in terms of food production. Urban areas are much more expensive - at least 10 times more often in rural areas. Energy and other costs of maintaining households in major cities aussi, is likely to be higher.
In addition, the fact that America is the land - a justification for subsidizing urban - seems fanciful at best. Over the past 30 years, there has been a loss of agricultural land, the amount of land that develops products collected is stable. Although some farmland near metropolitan centers should be protected simply HAS agriculture during the last decade have returned to nature - forests, wetlands, grasslands - millions of hectares of more than I beens dedicated residential and other urban uses.
However ridiculous arguments, the Obama administration is under the influence of environmental groups and cultural life of the prisoners left ICT powerful contingent of gourmet organic. This leaves small farmers and small towns dependent 'Em with a whisper.
The ability of green and the other to devastate agriculture can be seen in the disaster currently unfolding in the fertile Central Valley of California. Large areas of the region is being developed back in the desert - dry times less lenient règlements to save obscure fish species in the Delta State. More than 450,000 hectares have already allowed the former ferry. Nearly 30,000 jobs Agriculture - mainly Latinos - are former lost, and many cities suffer rearing conditions that resemble grapes of wrath.
Not satisfied with the results of the thesis, the green lobby has prompted the National Marine Fisheries Service to reduce the list of energy that the conditions of whales and other species in the ocean. This strained relations, farmers, including those with whom I worked in Salinas, worried about what steps the federal regulatory agencies and the state can take.
Of particular interest revolves around the movement against genetically modified foods. Already there are calls to ban GMOs in Monterey County. Local officials worry paralyze the industrial area of emerging biotechnology, agriculture and the long term ability of farmers to compete with existing competitors unless regulated elsewhere. That less developed form of genetic engineering aussi called "green revolution", which greatly reduces hunger in the world, I think, effective in 1965, EM least inappropriate.
If you look globally, compared to a lot of agriculture is even worse. As a professor of Food Science at the University of Chapman noted Anuradha Prakash, India organic farms use a small part of the market and can not meet the food needs of a growing population. "You can not understand the need for you to Africa and Asia yields on organic methods," he said.
Formula that works for an upscale Manhattan gastronomic Bay Area or can not produce enough food to feed the masses available - either in Minnesota or Mumbai. New war for agriculture not only threatens the lives of millions of American workers, which may affect our ability to help feed the world.
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