I recently finished reading Joel Salatin’s latest book, Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories From the Local Food Front . This book illustrates how government regulation favors Big Agriculture and limits what is possible for small-scale farming. Most of what is big today, started as a small-scale farming idea. [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2007
One Generation
October 9, 2007 – 4:34 am
It will only take a generation to implement “voluntary” NAIS. That is my prediction unless parents who farm take the initiative to turn the tide. Headlines such as “USDA & FFA Team Together to Promote NAIS” and “4-H, FFA members begin enrolling animals in NAIS” show the new direction the USDA is taking. If they [...]