The Public Needs to be Educated About Agriculture
The Public Needs to be Educated About AgricultureStephanie
Stade"In the last 15 years, it occurred to me that the public no
longer knows what farming and ranching is all about. The wonderful
image we (producers) used to have in this field of just being the
best that America has to offer has been lost. One hundred years
ago, 25 percent of us were in agriculture. Today, only 2.5 percent
of us are," said Lehr.Food Prices in U.S.Only about 10% of families
budgets in the U.S. are spent on foodOver 50 percent of a families
budget is spent on food in developing countries
PETA
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is the
largest animal rights organization in the world, with more than 3
million members and supporters.PETA focuses its attention on the
four areas in which they think the largest numbers of animals
suffer the most intensely for the longest periods of time: on
factory farms, in the clothing trade, in laboratories, and in the
entertainment industry. They also work on a variety of other
issues, including the cruel killing of beavers, birds, and other
"pests" as well as cruelty to domesticated animalsPETA
ContinuedYahooYahoo posted an article in 2012 rating agriculture
degrees #1 for most useless.The public is so uneducated that they
dont understand that no other industry can provide the necessities
our population needs to survive except agricultureEducating the
publicIf the public does not get educated about the basics of
agriculture, there wont be an end to agriculture but there likely
could be an end to how we know agriculture now and how we live
it