farming
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This article is about farming. It talks about how it has changed with the years and also about how different each culture farms. Recently a team of agriculture economist tried to put a price tag on the cost of modern farming because they had to pay to remove pesticides and some other agrochemical from drinking water, the damage from soil erosion, and the medical cost of food poisoning and "mad cow" disease. This did not include the more that four billion of government subsides paid to farms or the billions in health care cost due to poor food choices. People in the United Kingdom pay three times as much for their food that we do. They pay three times as much because they subsidize farmers. They pay to clean up the mess from polluting farm practices and when they buy food at the counter. Prices like this are not confined to the United Kingdom.
Many of these cost grew of the "cheap food policies" of Europe and North America after WWII, those policies include government support for domestic crop production in an effort to assure affordable food for working citizens. This encouraged overproduction and farmers had to extract as much crop as possible from a given plot of land...