The U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance has a one-stop website that accurately answers your questions about food production.
“USFRA recognizes that consumers have questions and want to learn more about how their food gets from the farm to their plate,” said Bob Stallman, chairman of USFRA and president of the American Farm Bureau Federation. “With so much information available to consumers today, we wanted to create one destination that compiled factual and unbiased information on food production. This new site, USFRA FoodSource, provides these resources and also adds the voice of farmers and ranchers responsible for raising and growing the food we eat.”
Why are ‘Modern Farmers’, which I take to be corporate farms and farmers that use growth hormones, the only ones that are included in this bill? Are you trying to eliminate the chances of small farmers, new farmers and protections for the Amish and other non-typical farmers and ranchers from being included? I’ve even read the actual measure which doesn’t explain the bill well enough. If it was worded to protect all farmers, I would consider voting yes. Without the rest, I can’t vote for this because it eliminates those that I would be more likely to trust.
Ross, please don’t assume a modern farm means “corporate.” We don’t have corporate farms in North Dakota. The reason we want “modern” practices protected is because what has happened in other states is the modern practices are the ones that have been attacked and eliminted. We just don’t want to see that happen here. We aren’t trying to eliminate small farmers or niche farmers. We think we need them all and want to maintain the diversity we have so people can have food choices that they want. Constitutional language, which Measure 3 is, is MUCH DIFFERENT than statutory language, in that, constitutional language is supposed to appeal to general moral concepts, rather than specifics. The entire U.S. Constitution is only 4,500 words, with most amendments only being 1-2 sentences in length. We just don’t want groups coming into our state and fundamentally changing agriculture so we lose the diversity we have.