U.S. Farmers Are Under Siege? Food Security Crises Going on in the U.S

According to- Anthony Hernandez: U.S. farmers are under siege, but these attacks are also happening worldwide. The first farmers to receive governmental interference in the Amish community, a self-sustaining pioneer-type community, grow their food, make their foods, make furniture, and other products. They are Bible-believing people who stay on their own but also sell their products to stores and sell foods at farmer’s markets and roadside stands. –Full report…

If the society broke down into city states because of one of the many risk facing us came to fruition, why assume this would end farmer markets? The farms at risk for extreme weather and Global Warming, higher heat and drought and floods are large maga-farms with mono-crops that do not grow sustainably. They lack the soil depth and health and risk another dust bowl in the least.

Organic farms and permaculture farms are resistant to weather extreme and bounce back more easily. This is because they grow many crops along side perennials, have strong soils because the emphasize sustainability over profit. Many small farms though monocrop of annuals are small enough, surrounded by trees and other small farms growing different crops which helps yield stronger soils mostly because they cannot afford so many herbicides and fertilizers so most fall back on manure which is usually plentiful and cheap at least out here.

So most small farms are somewhat sustainable, even alley, and roof top ones are. And though a few also will likely fail for many reasons (economics ironically is the likest), most will survive. Yet many potential crisis we face today as they faced last time we were in a like Gilded Age or oligarchy, Its the jobs that fail and this includes banks and supermarkets.

But farmers market might if those farms that survive have enough to sell and people they want to sell to have money or can barter for food instead and the government just doesn’t seize this. Of course this assumes the crisis is that the capitalistic system collapsed again as it did a century ago. If this was worse likely governments would collapse at the federal level of loose control of most of the states.

How state governments survive depends on, how close they were to the event. Martial law might follow and this scenario is the seizing risk. Another risk is roving bands taking food before it can be sold and killing farmers.

Yet farm communities likely would build community in the chaos and have protection from neighbors who do not farm and are job less (likely for part of harvest). Still the farmers markets in this scenario would be insulated and limited to those in those communities.

This didn’t happen during the great depression yet farms food stayed out in the farm areas and fed people there mostly as transpiration broke down. This is why so many people in cities starved. Those in the country did far better. So farmer’s markets might still exist, yet can you afford them or if bartering offer something they can use living so far away?

Additional:

What would happen if there was no farmers markets in the United States?

If there were, for no good reason, no farmers markets, then farmers and their consumers would get together and create them!

Because that is where they came from; fulfilling a need.

With the end of the petroleum age facing us in the next decade or two, expect farmers markets to become more and more popular. The growing uncertainty about the quality and healthfulness of industrially-produced food is creating a growing “know your food producer” movement.

The forces arrayed against farmers markets are formidable. Basically, the entire industrial food industry has absolutely no interest in being cut out of consumers’ lives, which is what farmers markets do, by fostering direct-to-consumer relationships with food producers. In fact, they are spending lots of lobbying money to put an end to farmers markets.

Case in point: a dozen or so years ago, the BC Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Rory McAlpine, barnstormed the province, warning consumers about how dangerous the meat supply was, because, y’know, just any farmer could slaughter, butcher, and sell meat to just any consumer. Heaven forbid!

Forget for a moment that not a single case of farm-butchered food poisoning had been reported to the BC Centre for Disease Control. Not. A. Single. One. People who eat their own food tend to have safe food, unlike the guy who would never eat in the burger joint that he had worked at. But the politicians and their industrial-farming buddies had to protect the public!

So McAlpine put a system into place whereby all meat was required to go through provincially-licensed and inspected abattoirs. (That’s Canuck for “slaughterhouse.”) Our small island, once renown for its lamb, saw our meat production slashed by about 70% over the next few years. We held bake sales and other fund raisers and raised $700,000 to put an abattoir on the island in an attempt to stop the economic drain — money that could have been spent on schools, hospitals, libraries, or perhaps even a four-season farmers market structure.

Having accomplished his master’s bidding, McAlpine left politics and got a cushy, newly-minted job as “Head of Government Relations” for Maple Leaf Meats. Less than two months later, Maple Leaf killed two dozen meat consumers with tainted meat!

You could not make this stuff up. Any editor or publisher would say, “Not credible.” But it happened.

Consumers are increasingly dissatisfied and untrustful of the industrial food system. If there were no farmers markets, you would be forced to eat whatever the industrial food system and their government pansies allow you to eat.

This originally appeared on EarlKing56.family.blog.

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