Rural/Farm Life

The Green new deal is, from what I understand, just a statement of intent. But if they can actually turn it into legislation they must consider farmers.

Did you know you can get an organic label on your produce if use some pesticides, underpay your labor and use more nitrogen fertilizer than your farm need so that it runs off into the streams and rivers around you. You can use just about any fungicide you want and their organic label on meat doesn't care if your cage your animals.

I think they need to "green up" the organic label. Or make a second "organic" label that encompasses actual care of the land and animals you are lucky enough to farm. Maybe rate farms on how many butterflies and insects have returned to the land. Did you know the dung beetle is rapidly disappearing because there is less dung out their for them and they get killed off by the chemicals on the farm. Or give them a grade on how many different species of birds visit their farm. Or count the lichen and see if the pollution rate on the farm has improved.

There is just so much more we could be doing to heal this planet.