Blogging on bureaucracy, organizations, USDA, agriculture programs, American history, the food movement, and other interests. Often contrarian, usually optimistic, sometimes didactic, occasionally funny, rarely wrong, always a nitpicker.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Second Thoughts on "Industrial Farming"
I usually resist the meme among the food movement of dissing the "industrial farmer", ". However, I saw this "Agrosecurity Checklist" on the extension.org site and noted the extensive references to "employees", which is a reminder that farming has changed from my mental picture of it. I just don't think of farmers as having employees, at least not full-time employees, but many do now.
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