Think Little: “For an index of our loss of contact with the earth we need only look at the condition of the American farmer—who must enact our society’s dependence on the land. In an age of unparalleled affluence and leisure, the American farmer is harder pressed and harder worked that ever before...”Today, the American farmer is not the American farmer of yesterday— nor will he be the farmer of tomorrow. We have a dependence on agriculture and food, yet have steadily decreased the amount of small, rural farmers and replaced them with development such as neighborhoods, distribution centers, and other industrial buildings. Urbanization has spread quickly across the country and in this process agriculture loses hundreds to thousands of land each year to it. The farmer and his land are essential to the survival of people—this is where we get our food. Yet we continue to diminish them as a result of our ignorance to our dependence on them. The Department of Agriculture has shown that family sized farms are the most efficient and produce the lowest priced food for consumers—still industry is dwindling them away. At what point will the country realize that this is going to have a negative effect on those who can barely afford to eat as is—of course they will realize it when it is too late. Our economy and society’s way of thinking has been overcome with selfishness, greed, ignorance, and desire for power. We have clearly forgotten how important the land is to us.
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