Excuse_Me_Flo,_Where’d_This_Big_Mac_Come_From

Excuse Me Flo, Where’d This Big Mac Come From “Excuse Me Flo, Where’d This Big Mac Come From'” “Family farmers care about the land they farm. We need to keep as many farmers on their land as possible-for their sake and ours.” This quote comes from John Melloncamp who is the director of the Farm Aid organization. After growing up in a small country town I came to realize the hardships that family farmers have to endure. My grandfather farms cattle and pigs and I have witnessed the travesties that corporate America has caused them. In the following I will explain how the family farming dynamic has changed over recent years, how David C. Korten’s view on societal change applies to farming, and finally how one organization is trying to remedy this problem. Over the past few years several circumstances have come together to greatly increase the pressures on farming in general and small, independent farms in particular. In 1996 Congress passed the Freedom To Farm Act, which re-wrote farm policy and laid down a foundation and schedule for eliminating most farm subsidies and price supports. This legislation in combination with a number of severe weather events and the partial collapse of the global economy farm, family, farmers, food, farms, aid, agriculture, farming, small, rural, profits, time, society, needs, corporate, big, about, years, while, problem, prices, one, land, business, being, been, system, over, low, korten, free, communities, change, between, americans