FACTS

• Due to increased pressure from factory farms, " ... farmers borrowed against their lands and mortgaged the farms, so that they could acquire more land and bigger machinery. Then they took out other loans to pay for the fuel, seeds, pesticides, and chemical fertilizers necessitated by having more land and using bigger machinery." *
  
  
• "When farmers couldn't pay their loans, due to crop failure or low prices and exacerbated by the farm crises of the mid 1980's, when land values plummeted, farmers lost their lands." *
  
  
• Most of the income from the local farmer remains in the community, whereas the profits of corporate farms generally leave the community and may even leave the state
  
  
• Children are dying globally at more than 1000 per hour from malnutrition and starvation.