Most Westerners born during and after World War II have seen their food coming out of large farms. The rising large farmers funded politicians and media to keep telling Americans that large farms, not small, were science-based, modern, efficient, and productive. The federal government through the US Department of Agriculture sided with the large farmers. From that position of power, owners of large farms do what they please. Large farmers have been growing just one crop on very large tracks of land.

Source: Huffington Post October 28, 2017 22:52 UTC