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     we all like to eat fresh and healthy food, without chemicals like pesticides, antibiotics, or additives, but we usually dont know where our food comes from. According to the article Family Farms, there is an alarming rate of small family farms that were forced out of business because it is difficult for them to compete with big corporations like farm factories. In the article Family Farm, one of the things that it is also mentioned is that Family Farms are very important because they provide fresh, nutritious, and high-quality foods. Unlike Farm factories, which pollute communities with chemical pesticides, noxious fumes and excess manure. I think that it is not fair that some companies make us believe that the food they provide us is good and healthy because they hurt the economy and hurt our health.

    Since big corporations like farm factories expanded their production the economy of the rural comunities have been affected because these big corporations just employ as few workers as posible and purchase suplies, equipments, materials from outside the local community, leaving rural areas with a high rate of unemployment and a low opportunity for economic growth.  Some corporations purchase equipment that replace workers, but these equipments dont do the same job as workers do, they just provide us food in bad conditions. For example these big companies process a lot of meat everyday, faster than a farm family can do, to make this possible people are exposed to work in fast lines in order to pack the meat, workers usually get injured thanks to the insane need for speed, instead of hire more people to help the community and provide food as it has to be.


Farm Factories just want to make money, and they dont care about the damage that the food they provide us can cause us.They add antibiotics to the animals' food to keep them alive, and these antibiotics can cause us many diseases. Nowadays we suffer from many sicknesses, and maybe this is thanks to the bad conditions factories process their meat because in this process the meat get also infected with manure.