Additionally money is tight for some people. On the other side, farmers need to make profit off their produce; as a result, the prices of these healthy food are more pricey than these unhealthy fast food. Farmers basically have a set up path towards poverty, and the ones that aren't in poverty aren't stable enough as other careers. This is a problem for the future and I think we should modify the ways farmers are paid. What views do you guys have or plans that will make farmers life more sustainable yet not crippling the economy too hard?
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Perspective on Farmer's Pay
My research question is about implementing a system to help farmers out and also help our health and well-being. In my perspective farmers have a rather difficult life. The sources I gathered towards my research paper states that farmers have a rather high poverty rate. Knowing the fact that farmers have a high chance of being in poverty, this will discourage people to be interested in farming as a career. Additionally farmers are now usually owned by large corporations (for ex: Food Inc). This is forcing people to become owned as property rather than farmers. They are farmed to mass produce not natural agricultural farming.
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As John F. Kennedy once said, "a rising tide lifts all boats". In layman's terms, by improving the general status of one thing, we can improve the individual status of all things related to it. In tackling the major underlying issue that most income earned in America keeps getting funneled to the top 1% by slowly closing the wealth gap by improving the lives of those capable of rising the economic ladder and growing the American middle class, megacorporations like those who own the food industry won't have nearly or even any strangling hold on small farmers as they do today.
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