> The worst part is that there's no real way for a consumer to fix this problem.
About all you can do is buy local grass fed or go vegetarian. As you say, it's not a huge thing, but at least I'm not participating.
> Generally smaller operations as they end up priced out of the market.
I would love to see some legislative reform on the large scale use of antibiotics in meat raising. That wouldn't necessarily help smaller farmers, but it might push larger scale farms into somewhat less heinous practices.
we need shit farming. 2 reasons: 1. grazing. grasslands sequester more carbon than even forests. 2. phosporous. if you go to iowa. the farmers feed pig shit to grow corn and then feed the corn to the pigs so they'd shit. it's the only way. Soil P is a non renewable resource. when we run out of P, we cant farm anymore.
I just can't stand shit farming.
> The worst part is that there's no real way for a consumer to fix this problem.
About all you can do is buy local grass fed or go vegetarian. As you say, it's not a huge thing, but at least I'm not participating.
> Generally smaller operations as they end up priced out of the market.
I would love to see some legislative reform on the large scale use of antibiotics in meat raising. That wouldn't necessarily help smaller farmers, but it might push larger scale farms into somewhat less heinous practices.