Robert F Kennedy Jr recently suggested that small producers and local farmers should be exempt from the same regulations that might apply to the bigger corporate players with industrial scale farming operations.
His position is one that seemed to gather a great amount of support and it does make sense for those who are interested in supporting their local growers instead of much larger operations. There is quite a bit of difference in how one operation might differ from the other in how they grow, how much they grow, their impact on their local communities and so on.
Communities around the U.S. and elsewhere rely heavily on their growers whether they like it or not, they are the lifeblood of the community by supplying the daily goods that are consumed by millions. It would come as a great detriment to any community if they were to ignore the needs of their farmers and neglect them by choosing not to support them, or to hinder their operations in such a way that squashes their efforts to be successful and continue to maintain their farms so that they can keep growing for generations.
There are thousands of farms around the U.S. alone, producing everything from beef to honey, eggs, grains, and much more. This is one stance that those on the right and left, all in-between, should be able to get on board with. Farmers are needed and there are a variety of benefits that they provide depending on how they run their farming business. We have seen a growing interest for regenerative farming in recent years as farmers have been working in the United States and elsewhere to try and restore life to the soil and bring a chain reaction of benefits aside from just the goods that might get sold at the store.
The pandemic highlighted the weakness of the system when there isn't enough decentralization for the goods that millions of people rely on. Supporting small and local farmers can help to strengthen communities by offering a more diversified option for what is needed, from milk and eggs to cotton, fruit, and vegetables.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/26/earl-blumenauer-agriculture-farm-bill-congress
