Stop Demonizing Livestock Farming: It’s the Backbone of America’s Food Security

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As a farmer, I believe the tone of the media needs a serious shift. Too often, it’s influenced by groups like PETA and HSUS, pushing anti-farming narratives that distort the truth. We need to focus on common-sense laws, shaped by farmers themselves, not by outside lobbying groups. The federal government can help by promoting voluntary transparency programs and funding education campaigns that highlight the real, ethical practices behind livestock farming.

To address the media, we should push for fairer representation of agriculture, ensuring that coverage of farming reflects accurate, firsthand experiences rather than activist-driven agendas. Encouraging media accountability through free-market solutions—like funding independent agricultural journalism or promoting platforms that showcase farming realities—can counter the current narrative. Farmers play a critical role in feeding America, and it’s time for that truth to be front and center, not buried under sensationalist headlines.

Lastly, the government can work to support farmers’ voices in policy-making, ensuring that agricultural laws are informed by those with real experience in farming. By involving farmers directly in the legislative process and reducing reliance on third-party lobbyists, we can create policies that balance animal welfare, sustainability, and food security. It’s time to trust the people who know farming best to make decisions that benefit the nation as a whole.

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Very well said! Nothing is more frustrating than having so many voices at both the state and federal level and the government not hearing a word. They do not see the day to day struggles we deal with. They do not see the hard times we have to go through when weather strikes. They do not see the struggle with deciding to pay your crop protection bill or your harvest bill. We as growers have so many supporters who are willing to go lobby for us and try to bring change, but the government needs to listen. Not only listen, but do something to change because what is happening now is going to drive many farms into the ground.

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Here is some math to make you feel better.

You would need to eat around 2.5 million hamburgers in a year to equal Bill Gates’ yearly carbon footprint!
Bill Gates yearly carbon footprint is around
7,493,000 kg.
A typical hamburger is around 3 kg of CO2
7493,000 % 3 = 2,497,667

Maybe integrate it into a marketing campaign, that’s one I could jump on I really like beef a lot.

Be like Bill eat more beef

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I think we need to separate into harmful mono culture industrial factory farming methods vs. more holistic family and animal health methods. The factory model is failing and we need to support the changes to regenerative. Which will require a highly disruptive turning the huge ship around, 1 nudge at a time. Neat meat vs factory meat.

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