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BTC_P2P 3 days ago
90% of agriculture in the U.S. wouldn’t be economically viable without subsidies and industrial pesticides. Monocrop industrial agriculture is extremely resource intensive and hugely detrimental to local ecosystems and watersheds. At least half of the land currently under the dark-spell of federal agriculture subsidies would naturally be used as grazing land sans govt intervention. Properly grazed livestock are beneficial to land-quality and do minimal harm to local ecosystems and watersheds. Industrial farming leads to mass-ecocide quite rapidly. It is an abject blight to human and habitat health.

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I’ve seen so much land under federal CRP programs and ALL of it is languishing because cattle aren’t allowed to graze it. It’s maddening and just adds injury to the insult of what you just said.