Agribusiness' Biggest Yield? Sorrows

photo credit: Michael Gäbler (CC BY-SA 3.0)Given food shortages, what’s not to like about big crop yields? Turns out that the model of production ruling farms today is doing a better job of yielding a big crop of sorrows than of feeding the world. Nor is it focused on healthy produce. That’s because the model focuses on what most benefits the half dozen or so corporations that now control U.S. farm production. The model looks at efficiencies that reduce costs and increase profits in the short term, not at producing the healthiest crops or stewarding the health of land, water, and well-balanced ecoregions.

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