So, if a farmer sells his land itself to China, we reclaim it under eminent domain. Then give it to another farmer.
One part of the problem is that fewer people want to be farmers. Another part is that rising costs and competition from large corporate farms makes it hard for small farmers to stay in business.
No, part of the problem is that fewer people are expected to be farmers.
1. They figure Big Agriculture has it taken care of.
2. Few Americans today actually know what farming entails.
I've watched my niece look completely intimidated by the idea of whacking soil a few times with a hoe, or watering a plant with a house. She doesn't really get the process since she's city folk. City folk are like "Gasp! That's dirty! Where does that food come from, and what do we do with it?"
So people have to want to grow food, and governments have to want to take down Big Agriculture.
They have to feel like Big Agriculture is heading down a path so wrong that the whole thing has to be sued for monopoly, among other things.
What exactly are we eating when we're in a beef shortage, and Americans eat over 15 million burgers daily?
Never mind reading, writing, and arithmetic. Farming should be taught well before those kiddos ever get a smartphone.
The megacorp farms are the reason so many small farmers went out of business. This has been happening for at least a couple decades.
The government is actively supporting these monopolies, and actively taxing and punishing their competition. We were in a meat shop during the time of COVID, and the guy was talking about how if Hillary had been president, the last of the privately owned beef farmers would have gone under. That Trump basically passed a few laws protecting them. Now he's trying to put real food back on the menu, and all you EU penguins are poopooing his efforts.
Poll