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 John Peck, John Kinsman, Sarah Kavage,
David Miller
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Sarah's final Industrial
Harvest event took place today at Mess Hall, a community art space in
the diverse Rogers
Park neighborhood of Chicago. It was a panel discussion on the
topic Economic Justice and the Commodities System with guests
John Peck
(economics professor) and John Kinsman (dairy farmer) of Family Farm
Defenders and David Miller, a former banker who started Midwest
Organic Farm Management as a mechanism for investing in
organic agriculture. If they all look serious here it's for
good reason--there are more prisoners than farmers in the USA and half
of those who do farm don't even own the land they work. Small,
sustainable, holistic family farms are being screwed right out of
existence by financial and regulatory systems heavily tilted towards
big money interests--a crisis vividly dissected in Joel Salatin's Everything
I Want to Do Is Illegal. |