Food To Foster Trust Case Study

Most people in America have never thought about where their food comes from or even talked to a farmer or rancher. Of that handful who have, even fewer have ever stepped foot onto a farm or ranch.The film “Farmland” takes an interestingly angled look into the lives of six farmers and ranchers in their twenties who are all entirely responsible for their operations. This paper takes a more in-depth look at three; Ryan Veldhuizen, Sutton Morgan, and Margaret Schlass.

Farmers’ market produce could fall in one of two marketing channel structures the first one being direct channel. This is so because the Farmers market can sell their produce

Education is a powerful tool and, when used correctly, it has the power to teach someone a new skill, transform his or her perspective, and encourage personal growth and development. Throughout this country, numerous agricultural education programs help students to learn more about and deepen their understanding of one of this nation’s most valuable industries: the agricultural industry. Most importantly, these programs play a major role in helping to combat the lack of

The three contingencies of Patel’s plan include changing the governing laws of agribusiness, improving the conditions of and supporting rural areas, and changing the role of eating in society. Before much progress can be made, the ways in which businesses are required to operate must change. Without any new legislations to stand in their way, nothing will alter the ways in which they operate or the ways they look to further solidify their dominance. Next, rural growers simply need more help. In current conditions, they barely scrape by due to the increasing demands from their purchasers and the decreasing amounts of compensation collected. Contrary to the original perception, crop subsidies, most associated with corn, provide no help to these smaller farmers. They can’t compete with the mass-growers and their enormous swathes of land. It drives the rural farmers out of those particular markets, and it often prevents them from growing crops their land is most suitable for. Finally, Pollan pushes the idea that there must be a revamp of the meaning of food to consumers. As it stands, people view eating as a task rather than an enjoyable experience. This leads the consumer to think little of the food, especially in ways Michael Pollan insist they must think about the food. This anti-cooking architecture of society is, nonetheless, a self-perpetuating cycle of

1 Farmers may not totally understand the product value. They may not easily accept new product that they have never heard about.

The customers that buy from local sustainable farms know how their food is grown and harvested. At the Polyface farm Joel does not have walls on his slaughter house, this way people can come and see how their next meal is killed in a humane way. The people “don’t need USDA to ensure that the meat they’re buying has been humanely and cleanly processed,”(208) because they can watch with their own eyes how the meat is slaughtered. Industrial industries protest that selling produce locally can not get food to everyone around the US. Shipping produce across the country effects the foods taste. Also when customers go to the far, to pick out their own food they get the produce fresh and local. Local farmers on sustainable farms will make a bigger profit out of their produce because they do not have to put all their money into buying chemicals and fertilizers, this is good for the produce and farmers.

To conclude, our current way of agricultural life is not sustainable. The article “What’s for supper” has made me realize that if I hope for a better future for generations to come I should support a locally sourced lifestyle. This article is an eye opener to me and proved to me the importance of supporting locally grown produce. Locally grown produce supports the environment as well as jobs for people in the community. The current system takes a toll on every species on the planet. Humans are overproducing on a massive scale and are wasting close to half of our supplies and

History has shown that once our ecology is disrupted and our natural resources are gone, we will start dying off. In order to avoid this fate, we must act now. Our next step to recovery will be with our livestock. I understand that human life carries more worth than that of livestock. However, we cannot succeed without our livestock. We must first restore the health of our livestock in order to prosper. We cannot afford to lose any more livestock and that starts now. We initially give the highest regard to our livestock. The livestock will not go without ample feeding and clean water. We have to restore our livestock population has in both health and numbers.

Aunt bessie as you know i was sick from food poisoning for two weeks as a child which could give me a bias against food industrialist which is why i want to give s food safety charity 600,000 dollars. I was investigating like a sleuth when i read a novel by Upton Sinclair that stated something terrible i may have gotten sick from poison bread or a rat that the shovelers don't care about they won't even go through a simple effort to take them out. (Doc D). I read the entire novel and it had some interesting information about the hanging racks it is apparently so dark that the rats climb all over and drop their feces right on the meat ! (doc D picture). The food industrialist even have the brawn to lie on the cans to people about the type of meat most have white lies on the cans.

In the Shenandoah Valley near the border of Virginia, Joel Salatin and his son Daniel, accompanied by two farm hands, run “one of the most productive and influential alternative farms in America” (Pollan 126). Polyface Farm is rather unique in its business tactics as well as agricultural practices. The only way to eat products from Polyface farm is to live next to it. . .or within a half-day’s drive. Joel Salatin is a firm believer of “relationship marketing” wherein the only way to ensure integrity is to meet the man who raised your meal (Pollan 240). Farms like Joel’s are often forgotten or considered to be at the bottom of the socioeconomic food chain, yet customers come back every single week to pick up the food that they know has been humanely raised and is not tainted by the farcical regulations (or lack thereof) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Joel claims that “the only genuine accountability comes from a producer’s relationship with his or her customers, and their freedom” but his business is hindered by the “disconnected multi-national fecal factory” that is the American food industry (Pollan 235-241). Joel wants to be able to do more for his customers, and he’s fighting the system so that he can. Eventually, Joel would like to cure, or even smoke, his meat so that his customers have even less work to do, but the USDA regulations prohibit curing/cooking meat on land designated only for agriculture (Pollan). If the USDA were to modify its

FFA and 4-H are non-profit organizations that allow young children to learn the fundamentals to agriculture as well as the values of responsibility and work ethics. Some of the livestock feeds that Coryell Feed and Supply provides such as Purina and Economy. “The prices for Purina we can not adjust much, due to the company Purina has set minimums that are their purchase prices. However, the Economy brand we are able to be more flexible with for they do not have a set sells minimum” stated Mr. Bay. A bag of Purina oats will normally cost around thirteen dollars while a bag of Economy feed can be under ten dollars a bag depending on the livestock it is intended for”(Mr. Bay). Coryell Feed and supply distribution is to the local area, however, they do not make deliveries customers must come pick up their feed and supplies themselves. “If a customer calls and states that they wish to purchase a certain amount of a product we will have it counted and set aside for them, and once they arrive it is our pleasure to load it for them” said Mr. Bay. Their target market is the niche of the agricultural industry with farmers and ranchers and the hunting community. The market segmentation that is being used for Coryell Feed and Supply is farmers, ranchers and lawn and

The “Oink Outings” campaign took mothers on a journey to help them understand how livestock is raised. To get a better understanding of what the mothers needed to know, they asked the mothers questions that open their minds to pig farming. Oink Outings campaign help mothers by bringing out farmers in the near area to help teach the parents how buy and cook fresh pork from markets. The research also help influence parents understanding of fresh

My volunteer experience at Howling Timbers included cleaning and preparing meals for the animals using expired produce donated from local grocery stores. My work started with sorting the new shipments of goods into categories and rotating them with the old, molding fruits and vegetables that would get used in the evening. During meal preparation, I cut off the fuzzy, moldy, slimy, and decomposing parts of the fruit and vegetables and put the salvageable portions into food bins for the horses, pigs, donkeys and sugar gliders, the scraps into a compost pile. I asked Brenda if larger corporations gave Howling Timbers their expired produce and learned that the food donations at Howling Timbers come from local grocery stores. Brenda explains to the managers at these larger grocers that the food they receive is only for animal consumption. Still, they deny her the food and dispose of their expired goods in the dumpster— out of sight, out of mind.

Self-Help International has a variety of projects in third world countries. These projects have several objectives that they address including training small-scale farmers to improve their methods of farming and transportation. They are also assisting in dealing with post-harvest problems of storage, processing, and marketing. Another objective is training people in the use of Quality Protein

Exhibiting livestock builds youth’s level of respect for others. In the livestock industry people do not always agree with other people’s opinions. The odds are never in every child’s favor, they may go from the top of one class to the bottom of the next. That being said youth have to learn how to win graciously, and lose with dignity (“Youth Exhibiting Livestock Are Developing Life Skills”). Youth have to learn how to respect their competitors in and out of the show ring. Children have to remember that the judge makes the cuts not their competitors. Today may be their day, while tomorrow may not be. Youth also have to learn to respect the judge’s decisions, because there is nothing they or their parents can do to change it. One judge may love