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This frequency with which polluting industries are built in these communities is evidence of ongoing environmental injustice. Growing up i n Michigan, the rapid consolidation of dairy farms due to industrializedagriculture led her family to the very difficult decision to sell their dairy.
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There, plants haven’t had their survival characteristics bred out of them in favor of qualities like super-charged yields and other features of industrialagriculture. For many years, Europeans and Americans took whatever they found in these and other biodiverse places without asking, or paying, anyone.
The film unravels some of the issues that have driven our present-day problems, and points to a way forward that draws on the time-honoured practices of mixed rotational farming, eschewing extractive industrial food production for a more hopeful, sustainable future. Film poster courtesy of Mystic Arts. on Amazon Prime/Apple TV/iTunes.
If Tyson comes in and says farms and ranches who we’re buying cows from have implemented X amount of cover cropping, does that make their beef climate smart?” Secchi, meanwhile, questions why some of the wealthiest corporations and individuals in industrialagriculture are receiving additional federal money.
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