The agricultural farmers did it to themselves, many are very wealthy already. Anything corporate America has taken over is because the farmers didn’t want to do the maintenance work. So they sell out to big corporations who will make it easier.
Same as any other consumer using Meta products. You sell out because it’s easier to network that way.
I am the son of a farmer.
Edit: added disclosure at the bottom and clarified as agricultural farming
I'm a farmer myself. I was talking about farmers in some third world countries. They are extremely marginalized and suffered for decades and centuries. They still do.
This is for livestock farming, I was specifically discussing agricultural farming.
In general though, the easy rule of living and eating non-mega farmed food and sustainable living is to “eat aware”:
My other advice is a one-size-fits-all food equation, which is, simply, to know where it came from. If you can't place it, trace it, or grow it/raise it/catch it yourself, don't eat it. Eat aware. Know your food. Don't wait on waiters or institutions to come up with ways to publicize it, meet your small fishmonger and chat him or her up at the farmer's market yourself. [0]
Same as any other consumer using Meta products. You sell out because it’s easier to network that way.
I am the son of a farmer.
Edit: added disclosure at the bottom and clarified as agricultural farming