Tristan Velazquez
Article #6: “The Omnivore’s Delusion: Against the Agri-intellectuals”
Blake Hurst
4/20/17
Author Note:
Blake Hurst is a third generation farmer and currently works for the Missouri Farm
Bureau.
He received his education at the University of Missouri-Colombia.
He got
into being in the Missouri Farm Bureau because he wanted to have an impact on
bettering the farm policy.
I think because he has been a farmer his whole life and
now works for a farm bureau, he is suitable to write about this subject.
Article #6: “The Omnivore’s Delusion: Against the Agri-intellectuals”
Notes:
Most critics who critique industrial farming usually complain the most about
how the food is raised and that is because the results they get on organic
production is extremely poor.
Most of the people that own the farming tools that are considered “the most
industrial” are families that have such great support for their customers.
Most of the livestock and all the poultry products typically come from family
farms rather than industrial farms.
Arizona and Florida have ruled against pig gestation crates and after them,
California also passed a similar law.
Turkeys are kept in sheds that are usually too crowded for them and they
walk in their own waste
Even though turkey sheds are expensive it is worth it because the weather,
other predators and other conditions are factors if they do not have sheds
and make them live outdoors.
Nowadays most farmers are farming more acres than the farmers back in the
day because of technological advances but a negative to that is that they are
less connected with their crops and animals.
