There’s a common theme in farming right now, and it’s a battle of systems. 🚜

Not all farming systems are equal, and when grassroots farming, (organic, agroecology, regenerative), calls for higher standards, whether that’s banning cages, banning CO2 slaughter, or in this case banning glyphosate, the conventional side often slaps back with the same line. That will only push food prices up.

It’s usually backed by a loosely quoted “fact” that never seems to come with proper evidence or full context.

Two thoughts. First, we shouldn’t be fighting each other. We should be working together to make our countryside and food healthier, because the real pressure is coming from supply chains that squeeze farmers and reward shortcuts. Second, if farmers were paid a fair price for the true cost of producing food, there wouldn’t be the same desperation to chase high yields as cheaply and efficiently as possible. 🌾

The question I wish this article asked a farmer who relies on glyphosate and disagrees with a ban is this. If you were paid properly, and the pressure to produce huge volumes at rock bottom prices eased, would you still choose to grow food with chemicals.

Or is this less about preference, and more about survival.