I just found out that World Food Day was today. The event sponsored by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, asks that we join and act together, friends, family, and neighbors, to end world hunger. This year's theme is "Agricultural Cooperatives: key to feeding the world". There are a lot of different approaches to ending world hunger, i dont know how many of them are good, but FAO believes that"through group purchasing and marketing, farmers gain market power and get better prices on agricultural inputs and other necessities...cooperatives contribute to food security by helping small farmers and other producers access the information, tools and services they need. This allows them to increase food production, market their goods and create jobs, improving their own livelihoods and increasing global food security"
I wonder what if a bunch of small farmers, that care about sustainable and eco-friendly farming methods, got together and started selling food they could get their food out of the farmers market and into the supermarkets. What if all across the country this happened in small pockets and over time they spiderweb together, and people started enjoying this new produce because it was healthier and made them feel better, then maybe industrialized farming methods would be reevaluated and rethought as the public started catching on as these new co-ops started taking market share, and soon the public would have a higher standard for the flora and fauna that they eat. Of course I am simplifying the issue, really you can just kinda throw up some stickers around your school to raise awareness and it'll kinda just solve itself.
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