It’s so heartening to see this kind of op-ed published in the New York Times: A 50-Year Farm Bill. Jackson and Berry really distill a number of key points in an eloquent call for change to our national food system:

Industrial agricultural has made our food supply entirely dependent on fossil fuels and, by substituting technological “solutions” for human work and care, has virtually destroyed the cultures of husbandry (imperfect as they may have been) once indigenous to family farms and farming neighborhoods.

Clearly, our present ways of agriculture are not sustainable, and so our food supply is not sustainable. We must restore ecological health to our agricultural landscapes, as well as economic and cultural stability to our rural communities.

Link: A 50-Year Farm Bill