It s not going to go away. Sustaining agriculture ultimately is about sustaining people not just agriculture. People are becoming increasingly concerned about today s agriculture about its ability to meet the needs of people today and still leave opportunities for people in the future. People are becoming increasingly concerned about the safety and healthfulness our food supplies as we increase our reliance on an impersonal, global food system. People are becoming increasingly concerned about the natural environment as agriculture moves into the final stages of corporate industrialization.
Corporations have no heart, they have no soul their only concerns are profit and growth.
People are becoming increasingly concerned about an agriculture that has no commitment to people. Sustainable agriculture became a public issue because of the concerns of people about people. Sustainable agriculture first came to national attention during the farm financial crisis of the 1980s. Farmers were caught up once again in a reoccurring squeeze between declining prices for agricultural commodities and rising prices for fertilizers, pesticides, fuel and other farm inputs. The first USDA program was called Low Input Sustainable Agriculture, or LISA, because farmers were concerned about reducing their reliance on increasingly expensive inputs.