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‘America is a factory farming nation’: key takeaways from US agriculture census (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave to c/news

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Small farms and Black farmers are going out of business, while corporate-controlled farms are booming, raking in subsidies

Record numbers of American farms are going out of business with small farms and Black farmers the hardest hit – again, according to the 2022 agriculture census, a comprehensive snapshot of the state of America’s farms and farmers published every five years by the Department of Agriculture (USDA). Yet industrial factory farms rearing thousands of livestock in confinement have further expanded into rural America, acquiring smaller farms, raking in taxpayer subsidies and generating environmental harms.

The agriculture census is a mammoth data collection effort involving more than a million farmers, which tracks the number, size and types of farm across sectors, as well as the farmers and the financials – at the national, state and county levels. It provides insights into the impact – good and bad – of government programs on farmers, workers, land use, animals, waterways and the climate, and should inform future policy. The latest data set includes the Covid pandemic – an extraordinary time when global food prices, government farm subsidies and food insecurity all surged.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Are you sure this isn't just a way of distracting yourself from an atrocity against animals that you are participating in that you do not have to? Your choices are not inevitable.

[–] FlyingSquid 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, I'm sure that American late-stage capitalism is not a way of distracting myself from animals being slaughtered for food.

What a silly question.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

But you understand that American late-stage capitalism does not prevent you from conducting yourself in a way that is not cruel and violent towards farmed animals, right? It really seems like you are trying to make yourself think about a different subject so that you can avoid thoughts and emotions that you are unwilling to process. You would hardly be unique in that respect, you can witness people doing it every day.

To be clear, there is a moral imperative not to treat sentient creatures as property.

[–] FlyingSquid 1 points 1 year ago

You're right. I'm not talking about the thing you want to talk about.