Farmers and homesteaders hold the answers to so many of the issues plaguing America. From health, food security, soil degradation, “carbon emissions”, and fuel consumption…even the safety within our schools.
By lifting the restrictions and regulations holding back small farms and homesteads, they can get back to providing local and nutritious food to their communities once again. This includes dairy, meat, and egg producers, as well as home kitchens’ small batch cooked and canned goods. This will allow us to know where our food comes from and that we’re making healthy choices for our families. Let’s decriminalize food and support small farms and homesteads. Allow the black market egg dealers to legitimize their businesses without fear.
We should turn our focus from subsidizing mono-crop agriculture of corn and soy to subsidizing crop diversity. This will cut back the need to haul crops across country or to be imported from across seas. It will also cut back on the need for large scale factory production and packaging. This, in turn, will cut back on our emissions and fuel consumption, while also moving us away from the processed food industry.
Let’s focus on fixing our soil. Provide funding for education opportunities for farmers and homesteaders on sustainable, regenerative farming, soil conservation, and land management, while also allowing them freedom of choice. Give farmers incentive and help them with the necessary resources to save their land.
Healthy soil is the key to our health and to a healthy planet. It can help reduce the risk of desertification of our Great Plains. Healthy soil stores carbon and feeds the plants and organisms that rely on it. It will rebuild our digestive health, correct our vitamin and mineral deficiencies, our mental health and decrease our reliance on Big Pharma. Cancer rates, obesity, and chronic disease go down, fertility rates go up, Americans become happy, strong and productive once again.
Eliminating the destructive chemicals in our food will decrease adolescent depression and anxiety, thereby, reducing the number of young people prescribed mental health drugs. School/mass shootings will decrease if not disappear.
Use of antidepressants and antipsychotics in adolescents and young adults has skyrocketed in the last 30 years and so have mass shootings. It’s widely known (but rarely discussed) they can cause adverse effects on mood in young people.
Speaking of Big Pharma, they need to give farmers back their seeds. No more lawsuits, no more intimidation.
They monopolize the seeds. They manufacture the poison that’s sprayed on the crops that make us sick and destroy our soil, and then they sell us the drugs to keep us alive because they’ve made us sick.
There are grassroots organizations and farmers all across the country with a wealth of knowledge on how to move away from pesticides and synthetic fertilizers. They’re just waiting for people to wake up and listen.
And while we’re at it, let’s teach our children how to grow and preserve their own food, animal husbandry, and self reliance. If we eliminate standardized testing there will be more time for extra curricular learning. Do you remember Home Economics or Future Farmers of America? Let’s teach them the skills that have been lost to the last 4 generations.