8mm Enthusiast
Beginner
- Jul 6, 2025
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I hope you read this with an open mind. Before I got into hunting and shooting sports and even though I knew about sustainable farming, I was extremely supportive of common farmers, even ones who industrially farm their land. I had the opinion that they were simply in the crutches of big companies like Monsanto and all we had to do was to educate the "Good Ole Farmer Boys" to help them out.
Yet over the years my opinion changed as I started getting outside more and hunting on public land. Being someone who moved to my area newly and not having many connections, I hunt on 100% public land. I started constantly running into no trespassing private property signs, I started constantly seeing bare land being left by farmers in the winter without cover crops causing erosion of the soil. As I would walk from a wildlife area near a farmers land the change in biodiversity was drastic. You walk from one strip of land with all kinds of birds and bugs and mammals into basically dead land that has been stripped of its biodiversity and richness. I also became more conscious of this issue as I had to drive farther and farther from home to find suitable land to hunt certain species as everything around where I live is surrounded by farms.
As I started getting more and more into hunting and outdoor recreation, I also changed my diet to a healthy diet. I noticed that I consume ZERO corn and soybeans and most of the food I consume per the labels originates from South America, California, or Australia and New Zealand. Seeing this and seeing the millions if not billions of acres of corn and soybeans that decimate land which has so much potential to be a biodiverse cattle pasture, orchard, or organic vegetable farm is really heartbreaking. In my time as a worker in corporate america, I have also seen farmers and individuals who come from farmer families work full time in high paying positions. Many individuals work full time earning a high incoming while farming a couple of weekends in the spring to plant their crops. Couple this with the massive subsidies for corn and soybeans that my tax dollars pay for and the tax advantages that farmers have on their land, this really upset me to see just how much of freeloaders they are and how much they drain our society.
The recent events in the news about the sale of public lands was a horrifying event and made me even more aware of these issues. Couple this with deforestation in the Amazon, my opinion of the average industrial farmer has changed drastically. Don't get me wrong I have raised animals for profit myself and know the hard work it takes. Most crop farmers have zero animals these days, they have no diversity to their operation and have very minimal hands-off industrial farming techniques. Not to mention how they have pumped the air full of pesticides. I remember being young when we went outside, you had to avoid the bees, now there are barely any.
I hope this brings awareness to the destruction that modern agriculture is causing in our society due to greed. I see no purpose for billions of acres of corn and soy, billions of those acres could be used to feed us instead all of it goes into industrial products and ethanol while our food is imported from across the world.
Yet over the years my opinion changed as I started getting outside more and hunting on public land. Being someone who moved to my area newly and not having many connections, I hunt on 100% public land. I started constantly running into no trespassing private property signs, I started constantly seeing bare land being left by farmers in the winter without cover crops causing erosion of the soil. As I would walk from a wildlife area near a farmers land the change in biodiversity was drastic. You walk from one strip of land with all kinds of birds and bugs and mammals into basically dead land that has been stripped of its biodiversity and richness. I also became more conscious of this issue as I had to drive farther and farther from home to find suitable land to hunt certain species as everything around where I live is surrounded by farms.
As I started getting more and more into hunting and outdoor recreation, I also changed my diet to a healthy diet. I noticed that I consume ZERO corn and soybeans and most of the food I consume per the labels originates from South America, California, or Australia and New Zealand. Seeing this and seeing the millions if not billions of acres of corn and soybeans that decimate land which has so much potential to be a biodiverse cattle pasture, orchard, or organic vegetable farm is really heartbreaking. In my time as a worker in corporate america, I have also seen farmers and individuals who come from farmer families work full time in high paying positions. Many individuals work full time earning a high incoming while farming a couple of weekends in the spring to plant their crops. Couple this with the massive subsidies for corn and soybeans that my tax dollars pay for and the tax advantages that farmers have on their land, this really upset me to see just how much of freeloaders they are and how much they drain our society.
The recent events in the news about the sale of public lands was a horrifying event and made me even more aware of these issues. Couple this with deforestation in the Amazon, my opinion of the average industrial farmer has changed drastically. Don't get me wrong I have raised animals for profit myself and know the hard work it takes. Most crop farmers have zero animals these days, they have no diversity to their operation and have very minimal hands-off industrial farming techniques. Not to mention how they have pumped the air full of pesticides. I remember being young when we went outside, you had to avoid the bees, now there are barely any.
I hope this brings awareness to the destruction that modern agriculture is causing in our society due to greed. I see no purpose for billions of acres of corn and soy, billions of those acres could be used to feed us instead all of it goes into industrial products and ethanol while our food is imported from across the world.
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