The USDA says 97 percent of farms in the U.S. The Big Ag catalog… is delivered only to large-acre producers and features larger equipment and products necessary to run commercial operations. The term Big Ag means different things to different people. On the other hand, some groups, like this one, call themselves “Big Ag,” and pass information (and advertising of equipment) that’s designed for large-scale farming: Giant corporations sue small farms when patented GMO seeds accidentally blow into their fields. Field workers are forced to spray unnecessary toxic chemicals on their crops. They are on the frontline witnessing the havoc caused by this system run amok. Thousands of workers in this industrial farming system see what’s going on. More and more polluted waterways, clear-cut forests, inhumane treatment of livestock and megatons of greenhouse gases. It’s only a few decades old but just start adding up the environmental costs we are incurring by his broken system. Industrial ag is a system with an expiration date. On one hand, GMO-opposition groups like Greenpeace point to “Big Ag” as the consolidation of farming into corporations that, among other things, are forcing transgenic and other modified foods upon us: However, it is not entirely clear that this world actually exists. When opponents to the first wave of genetically modified crops and foods started objecting, one major focus was on the corporations behind innovations like Bt corn or Roundup Ready soybeans.Ī term that was (and is) often bandied about is “Big Ag.” It’s become an all-encompassing term to describe a world in which all farms are owned by major corporations, which also control the nation’s (if not the world’s) supply of seeds, plants, food, machinery and land. Is the Genetic Literacy Project a corporate ‘front’? GLP responds to ongoing false allegations from US Right to Know / Organic Consumers Association / SourceWatch / Baum Hedlund / Church of Scientology.GLP Integrity Policies: Privacy, Conflicts of Interest, Verification, Fact-Checking Standards and Corrections.Mission, Financial Transparency and Governance.

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