TruthOut: Can a Farm State Feed Itself?
Can a Farm State Feed Itself?
http://www.truthout.org/091309X?n
Brooke Jarvis, YES! Magazine: “Illinois, home to 76,000 farms and more than 950 food manufacturing companies, is a solidly agricultural state in the heart of America’s bread basket. Fully 80 percent of it is farmland. But, of all the food eaten in Illinois, only four percent is actually grown there.”
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That is because of our ‘global economy’.
farms are businesses and with property taxes thru the roof any more, farmers have no choice but to send as much ‘product’ where they can get the best dollar i.e. non farming states.
the other reason is stores buy cheap as possible also. example: a friend of shops at the Loves Park Schunks, she noticed a great deal of produce comes from Mexico etc. The store do not buy local.