Duroc: Family Farm Isn’t Dead, Yet

Duroc (RE: Burger King pledges cage-free food ): Sisyphus said on another thread that the family farm is dead. That was an overstatement - almost all of my relatives are still family farmers, and I have many friends involved in smaller-scale community-supported agriculture - but industrial agriculture is certainly running the show nowadays, and any idea of animal husbandry or wholesomeness has gone out the window in favor of economies of scale and corporate profit margins. Although that is depressing, it is not impossible (or necessarily expensive, blessed as we are to live in this area) to eat food that is grown locally using sustainable farm practices.

DFO: My niece is married to the heir of a large, family-operated dairy in central California. She’s the last family tie to farms/dairies. My siblings and I were raised on several dairies.

Question: Does your family have ties to agriculture?