Jack Albrecht
1 min readJun 15, 2020

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I feel for the small farmers. My dad's family are still all family farmers, and if my grandfather hadn't died before I was born, I would have grown up on a Wisconsin farm, including dairy.

A huge problem is big ag and governments being corrupted by big ag. This skews the market at the top, and smaller farmers have to follow and survive as best they can.

This pandemic would be a great time to cut dairy and meat subsidies and move towards a more plant-based diet. Stop using the majority of our fields and freshwater to grow feed for animals, and instead use it to grow more varieties of food for people in a more sustainable manner.

Not only would decentralizing food production (currently revolving around 50 meat processing plants) be good for small farmers, it would be great for the environment - not to mention the billions of animals NOT raised for short, tortured lives in horrendous conditions for slaughter.

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Jack Albrecht
Jack Albrecht

Written by Jack Albrecht

US expatriate living in the EU; seeing the world from both sides of the Atlantic.

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