Blaming Farmers

Just as it is with medicine, when farmers become reliant on the products they utilize to provide the world with food, they become customers for life. It all traces back to the Big Pharma model, a disastrous cycle of dependence, and the chemical manufactures that profit from it. When landowners can no longer sustain the high price necessary to continue the normal growth processes — while also feeding the environment’s addiction to modern practices and human demand for conventional commodities — they are forced to turn over the keys to industrial, prodigious companies and walk away from a multi-generational career. But today’s guests on ‘Financial Rebellion’ are some of the farmers who refuse to fall in line with this devastating reality which has affected many of their colleagues across the globe. They explain how we got to this point, current issues facing modern agriculture and future possibilities of an optimistic food future. Listen in!