[a farmer is talking in front of an angry crowd, pitchforks and all] I use the worst pesticides on my crops, raise animals in cramped conditions, take their babies away for slaughter, and have little respect for the environment
[the same farmer is talking in front of a now happy crowd, hearts and all] I'm a small local independent farmer though
Propaganda.
Note that the issues the US had in the fall with Avian influenza are compounded not by local farmers, but by massive corporate factory farms that optimize output at the expense of everything else.
Canada functionally escaped the issue because the farms here are smaller and more family-based, and so with healthier birds and cows in smaller localized populations made it much easier to maintain.
Yeah that's so fricking obvious to anyone who knows any farmers. But we live in a society m
I'm guessing that most of the larger farms in the US also aren't family owned anymore as investment companies have yaken over lots of them.
Investment companies don't give a shit about anything, less even about animal rights. The only thing that counts is short term profit