We have an abundant supply of these foods grown right here at home. Yet, slowly but surely, we are willingly giving up our ability to produce our own food. American farmers are being driven off their land at an alarming rate by low prices, high taxes, suburban sprawl and suffocating environmental regulations. Developers are gobbling up vast tracts of fertile farmland and covering them up with mass production homes. Safeguarding our domestic food production capability is strategic in nature and a matter of national security.
Wise nations take good care of their farmers because it is a matter of survival.
This article published in the Athens Daily News on Thursday, April 12, 2001. send this story to a friend discuss this story email the editor opyright 2001 Athens Newspapers Inc.