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Sunday |
 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. |