Until a few years ago, you probably didn't know you were a factory farmer, busy killing Gulf shrimp with fertilizer washed down the Mississippi. If you sell your corn to an ethanol plant, you're also responsible for clearing the Amazon rain forest forcrops. Of course, you're none of the above. But an increasing number of Americans seem to view farmers that way. Modern agriculture feels besieged by attacks - a book by Michael PoUan (Omnivore's Dilemma), a 2009 Time magazine cover story ("The Real Cost of Cheap Food"), successful ballot initiatives by animal rightists in California, moves in Congress to ban feed antibiotics, and EPA rules against farm dust.
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