The Last Farmer

http://www.mindfully.org/Farm/2003/Everything-Is-Illegal1esp03.htm Here we have a real citizen-farmer, not an industrial food producer, but a man who owns his own land and generates a sufficient variety of food to live on it exclusively. A traditional farm, in other words. Men like this and farms like these were part of the foundation of this country. Between the various bureaucracies weaving their webs through his life and livelihood and the ingrate public succumbing to the marketing magic of big agribusiness--what happens when this species of American is finally extinct? We are losing both our right and our capacity to sustain any semblance of life free of government support and oversight and intervention. It is a one-way street: citizens are managed and held to account, bureaucracies are the managers and effectively unaccountable. How does this not represent a soft, slow slide into tyranny?