Agriculture Reference
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The dysfunctional food system that we suffer from today is the result of longstanding farm and food policies
that were first proposed by some of the most powerful men in the country shortly after World War II. These
men envisioned a future in which most young rural men would supply cheap labor for manufacturing in the
industrial North rather than continuing to farm, and in which a small number of large industrialized farms
would supply the necessary food. They foresaw a future in which food production would be globalized for
economic efficiency and the “free market” would create the cheap inputs necessary for processed food. The
visions that these powerful men had in the late 1940s and early 1950s were eventually enshrined in federal
farm policy and in global trade agreements.
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