POLS 196 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Corn Syrup, Seed Saving, Farming Today
20 Mar 2020
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Growing, production, manufacturing and distribution of our food is hidden from us: food comes from nowhere . We can eat whatever we like, whenever we like, if we can afford it. Environmental and social impacts are hidden as well, as a result. Plurality of farms, around 24%, in the us are those that make over ,000,000 every year and average around 2500 acres each: most farms in the us are still considered family farms, which are romanticized. These are really just hobby farms, where the owner"s income comes predominantly from an unrelated occupation. Treadmill of production: technology advances leading to large scale adoption leading to increasing production leading to a duction and farmers leading to zero gain for farmers: locks farmers into competitive market that doesn"t benefit them. Farming today is more capital intensive: takes more land, equipment, inputs and outputs to be profitable.
