Since total subsidy elimination would be difficult to achieve politically, however, a subsidy reduction could begin by targeting those funds starkly to family farmers willing to use environment-friendly farming methods. Supermarkets are not the only places to pushes our daily bread. Most communities have food cooperatives that carry organic products. These markets offer locally grown, fresher food, minimal packaging and they're fun. Another fast-growing alternative to supermarkets is Community Supported Agriculture.
Shareholders can help plant, cultivate, and harvest.
Such direct contact with the land can be spiritually rewarding, too. Tilling is for human sustenance. The decline of family farming ad the degradation of soil and water are a few consequences of tilling without keeping. They are the consequences of the separation of economics from ecology.