Rural American Family Farms
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Oxfam America is a supporter of small family farm based business, according to Laura Rusu the US government spends up to 16 billion dollars a year on farm payments. Most of those funds from the US government go towards large commercial farms. Oxfam America is supporting the act called the Rural America Preservation Act, which will help smaller based farms with funding. Since there are so many loopholes in the current government system that are only helping the larger commercial based farms, this Act will help prevent these loopholes and help the smaller farms with more funding. There are many misleading ideas about the small scale farms, some of which are that small scale farms cannot support a family, that they need to grow into large scale farms to make money, and that small scale farming is usually just a hobby or for extra income. After researching the agribusiness, most of these accusations and most because small scale farms could be more successful if they were provided the support from state and federal governments like they should be.
In the statement of Barbara Fiorito (2005), the US government spends up to 16 billion dollars each year on farm payments, and 70 percent of the money goes to the farms that are already receiving government funding either through different federal grants or state funding. The article discuses how the large commercial farms also hurt smaller farms abroad. Since a large farm can mass produce a product they can sell their product at a much lower price because of the supply they have, verses the smaller farm that can not produce as much so it must then have higher prices. Even though this example that Oxfam give us is using farms from abroad it is the same kind of situations small American agribusinesses are facing. Andrea Perera of Oxfam said that the Rural America Preservation Act if passed will limit the subsidy payments to industrial farms and corporations and will help family farmers make a living. If passed, this Act will now have a cap on payments the farms will receive; the payments will be lowered by 30 percent from $360,000 to $250,000 said Perera in her article and most loopholes in the current government allow the largest farms to collect enormous subsidies, which can exceed $1 million will also be taken care of too.
In doing research it seems that most “common” people or people that grew up in larger cities have been mislead to what a small farm is.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that oxfam america is a supporter of small family farm based business and supports the rural america preservation act.
- Analyzes how the us government spends up to 16 billion dollars each year on farm payments, and 70 percent of the money goes to the farms that are already receiving government funding.
- Explains that most people who grew up in larger cities have been mislead to what a small farm is. the census bureau reports that these primary small family business farms have less than $100,000 in annual gross sales.
- Explains that oxfam america is a supporter of small family farm based business and supports the rural america preservation act.
- Analyzes how the us government spends up to 16 billion dollars each year on farm payments, and 70 percent of the money goes to the farms that are already receiving government funding.
- Explains that most people who grew up in larger cities have been mislead to what a small farm is. the census bureau reports that these primary small family business farms have less than $100,000 in annual gross sales.
- Explains that the small farms cannot afford the irrigation systems of the larger farms. the large farms can afford essentials such as fertilizers, tractors, and wildlife control.
- Opines that the larger commercial farms receive more subsidy payments than smaller family farms. corporate concentration in the beef-packing business alone costs the nation’s cattle producers $10 billion a year in revenues.
- Argues that the rural america preservation act will help american family farms receive payments from the government that large commercial farms have been receiving in the past.
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In this essay, the author
- Explains that farming was a passion and way of life for most, until corporate agriculture came into the picture guns blazing and taking everything in its path.
- Analyzes how corporations turned farms into modern day slaughter houses, where thousands of animals are crammed on top of one another like boxes on a warehouse shelf. farmers then pump already suffering animals with antibiotics to plump them up for the profit.
- Analyzes jason bittel's article about pharmaceutical antibiotics in meats, stating that there is a greater issue present than just moral when it comes to using these products.
- Explains that farming was a passion and way of life for most, until corporate agriculture came into the picture guns blazing and taking everything in its path.
- Analyzes how corporations turned farms into modern day slaughter houses, where thousands of animals are crammed on top of one another like boxes on a warehouse shelf. farmers then pump already suffering animals with antibiotics to plump them up for the profit.
- Analyzes jason bittel's article about pharmaceutical antibiotics in meats, stating that there is a greater issue present than just moral when it comes to using these products.
- Opines that the over-crowding of animals and overdoses of pharmaceutical meds is a toxic strain of "superbug" all its own.
- Explains that excess waste and manure is washed up into nearby lakes and rivers, like the mississippi, and then travels all the way down to the gulf of mexico.
- Opines that the everyday citizen, whether well-informed or not, is not going to move a pinky for something as ill-moral and disgusting as this.
- Explains that the food and drug administration is finally deciding to make a stand against the overuse of antibiotics in farming, realizing that simply asking politely is never going to work.
- Explains that meat producers have been feeding their livestock growth-enhancing antibiotics, killer steroids, for years. scientists are just recently discovering the consequences that plumping these animals up is having on not only the general health of the public but the planet as well.
1023 wordsRead More - Nestle Ethics Case Studycomparative essayNormally, the farmers get lower payment than other people in the value chain even though the farmers probably work harder than the others and use long time to grow ingredients. Hence, I think the farmers should get what they deserve in order to make their life better. Furthermore, this can encourage the farmer to produce more organic crops that are not harmful our environment and this campaign also supports fair trading.
In this essay, the author
- Opines that nestle's actions are unfair, unethical, and illegal, since it promotes unhealthy food with high levels of sugar, fat and salt to children.
- Suggests that nestle should produce more healthy and organic food, since it is more sustainable and is good for both animal welfare and environment.
- Suggests that nestle should label products with correct and sufficient information including name of the product, ingredients, direction, risk phrases, and so on.
- Opines that nestle's actions are unfair, unethical, and illegal, since it promotes unhealthy food with high levels of sugar, fat and salt to children.
- Suggests that nestle should produce more healthy and organic food, since it is more sustainable and is good for both animal welfare and environment.
- Suggests that nestle should label products with correct and sufficient information including name of the product, ingredients, direction, risk phrases, and so on.
- Explains that nestle will create campaigns to help the third person by giving one box of healthy and organic food to needy people.
767 wordsRead More - The Family Farming Requirementanalytical essayIt’s been fun, living in an ivory tower. In the ivory tower called upper-middle SES (socioeconomic status), the people are very much insulated from a pervasive societal cancer. Sure every now and again, I’d hear about or even experience firsthand the corruption of our government, the bribing, the slow court hearings. But, I had the money and the status to mitigate most such effects. So, what about those that don’t have such luxuries?
In this essay, the author
- Opines that the upper-middle ses (socioeconomic status) is insulated from a pervasive societal cancer.
- Explains that their encounters with low-segregated people were biannual. they would do outreach activities twice, near their birthdays (august) and near christmas.
- Opines that it's easy to absolve oneself of responsibility. those below poverty are there because they're too lazy to raise themselves up.
- Opines that the upper-middle ses (socioeconomic status) is insulated from a pervasive societal cancer.
- Explains that their encounters with low-segregated people were biannual. they would do outreach activities twice, near their birthdays (august) and near christmas.
- Opines that it's easy to absolve oneself of responsibility. those below poverty are there because they're too lazy to raise themselves up.
- Opines that the true cause of poverty is deeper and more systematic than what they initially thought.
- Explains that the napoles pork barrel scandal and the corruption exhibited during the typhoon haiyan relief ops helped these realizations form.
- Explains that the land reform issue has a rich history and wide reaching impact. since the colonial era, land has been associated with wealth and power.
- Explains that the policies put forth were too legal and complex. large farms had access to economies of scale which allowed them to sell their products at more competitive prices.
- Explains that small land owners are still mostly in poverty, while big company farms continue to make most of the money. government ignores public welfare as long as they get their cut.
- Argues that the problem with large scale farming, and most corporations for that matter, is the ideology of "more." they want to maximize profits for shareholders, but ambition wreaks havoc.
- Opines that the ideology of more is a cancer of society. it has to come from both the supply side (big corporations) and us (consumers).
- Explains that social sin is a systematic and sinful structure that theologians would call social sin. its origin can be traced back to the genesis creation story which shows man's tendency to sin.
- Argues that family farming and supporting family farm products and advocacies is one way to mitigate the effects of the social transgression at hand.
- Argues that family farmers tend to opt for more natural farming practices that tap into natural cycles and allow the land to regenerate nutrients and lead to equally plenty but more nutritious, organic, and non-poisonous produce.
- Argues that family farming leads to more equally distributed wealth and happier and healthier producers and consumers alike. both the rights of the human and of nature are upheld, and social justice better fits this model than the corporate one.
931 wordsRead More - Persuasive Essay On Small Farminganalytical essayThe small farms of America are scrutinized every day for what they grow and raise. Most of the small farms around America go through more and more regulations because the big farming corporations are able to pay the government off so they can grow and raise there items their own way. When most people look at small farms they see organic and healthy; for big corporations, though, a lot see short cuts and GMO's. Peter Singer also calls large corporate farms "factory farms" because they just keep growing and never stop but in the eyes of many that's ok. Shouldn't a small farm should have a right to farm what they want also, because of the good they can do for their community. So Americans should start buying organic and local because it can grow
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how allen understands the food game and how the prices will change with it. the usda does try to make it fair to everyone that wants to run and control their own farm.
- Analyzes how the usda categorizes the wealth of some people over others.
- Analyzes how mas maumoto tells the story of why people farm organically and make agriculture part of the world of ethics.
- Analyzes how allen understands the food game and how the prices will change with it. the usda does try to make it fair to everyone that wants to run and control their own farm.
- Analyzes how the usda categorizes the wealth of some people over others.
- Analyzes how mas maumoto tells the story of why people farm organically and make agriculture part of the world of ethics.
- Opines that small farms are scrutinized every day for what they grow and raise, and that will allen, of the good food revolution, is taking something run down and making it viable again.
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