12: Factory Farming

Since the beginning of human civilization family farms have cultivated fields and raised the animals in very sustainable way.  However at the end of twentieth century food corporations  sloweley started displacing small farms. As a result   nowadays we have very limited number of family farms, and its number is constantly  reducing. 

Human health, communities and  environment  is affected by food production

“It is critical for consumers to learn about where their food comes from and make their own informed choices”

Sustainable farms

Farmers life is very hard...

THE FAMILY FARMS

Nowadays there is less and less small family farmers. However, many farms that grew to the food factories proportions use the name family farms

- Food industry is dominated by large scale food factories - they are supported by government

- every week 330 farmers leave their land - family farmers go out of buisness

nowadays there is about five millions less farms than there was in 1930

- very fewer people becoming farmers today

- just 6% of farmers are younger than the age of 35

What we should do to support sustainable, family farmers:

-         We should buy food from small, independent family farms. They use methods that are sustainable and safe for environment.

-         Small families farms make small communities wealthier. In the food corporations benefits go to fiewer people

-          - family farms production is not aggressive and makes environment more varied when ….

-         Family farmers serve as responsible steward (zarzadca) of the land

-         Small farmers usually live near to their farms and 
the existance of familly farms .....