Hog farms and the Meatrix

When Pena introduced the Meatrix I started looking around to find out what does it mean to be free-range or organic. This upset me to find that the requirements are minimal and are not very enforced. Recently we have heard a lot about the Acequia and the sustainability of their farming practices, which is really interesting but is being challenged like many other small farms by large corporations. I was at the library a couple of days ago and saw a book that caught my eye called Pigs, Profits, and Rural Communities. I picked it up and read the introduction and it explained how small sustainable hog farms are being over run by large unsustainable producers. It also explained that these large corporations cause damage not just to the land and environment, but also to the social system and community. But how are these small farmers suppose to compete with the low prices of mass productions especially in a time when the economy is hurting so bad? Many people here in the U.S. can and do understand the consequences of not being sustainable but cannot afford it, or don't see the repercussions of not doing so. In this book they do research and use ethnography to understand the small farmers and the consumers percective on the industial farming industry.

Kassie McCann