Farming Politics

Everyone knows that a lot of stuff in our world today depends upon politics, but little did I know until reading this part of the book, that even farming can turn very political. This is another one of the major points that McKibben makes, he explains that almost all of the money that goes to the farming industry, is given to the large farms that only focus on producing one crop. By giving these farms these subsidies it is causing them to have a very large advantage, but if these subsidies were taken away, then the playing field would be evened out for the smaller farms. "It's all politics- the farm progrm subsidizes those crops that are geographically concentrated in a few states, and hence, in essence have their own senators: wheat, corn, cotton, soybean, and rice growers get virtually all the federal subsidy payments" (McKibben 87). This quote further explains what I was talking about above, that all the government money is being given to large companies, causing it to be very political.