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Originally Posted by mkezzo16
Wow I didnt know that, not surprised though..they lose alot of many to people who grow their own foods...next they're going to try to outlaw private farms and organic food.
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the whole 'organic food' thing is kind of fucked up as well. You have to pay to certify your product as organically grown, so only operations of a certain size (read; large) can afford it, it has little to do with the quality of the product that they are producing.
Also, the large farming operations that sell to the major chain supermarkets have to meet a certain requirement for cleanliness and are therefore required by law to inspect their crops a certain number of times, test water, etc., but there is very little actually observation of their practices. This means that one grower can claim that they go above and beyond the requirements in order to obtain contracts with the distributers, regardless of whether they actually do or not, because no one is actually checking.
In summation the system is extremely biased in favor of large corporations. Just like in every other aspect of this country i guess. That is just a bias that our system has.