I watched a documentary on Netflix called “Farmageddon” about small farmers, who were producing safe, healthy foods for their communities were raided by law enforcement, sometimes in SWAT garb, and arrested; \u00a0their lives were ruined, and their farms driven out of business. And while agra-business receive the vast majority of the farm subsidies once intended to help the small independent farm, the handouts continue allowing these agra-businesses to thrive while the small farmer is not only driven out of business, but harassed by law enforcement – for daring to butt heads with the corporate farms. And this hit close to home for me; last year a farm in a neighboring county was raided by a dozen sheriff’s deputies, FBI and FDA agents, some with their guns drawn.<\/p>\n
If you have Netflix, I highly recommend you watch “Farmageddon” as well as one narrated by actor Jeff Bridges called “A Place At the Table” — about the 40 million Americans who go hungry in this land of plenty every single day.<\/p>\n
Both of these documentaries will open your eyes to what’s happening in America right now.<\/p>\n
Please don’t turn this into a political debate. Hunger is not problem created by any party, but it is a problem that should never happen in a country as wealthy as ours.<\/p>\n
If you watch one or both of these, let us know what you think<\/p>\n
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