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Empty Fields, Empty Promises
Loka Ashwood
Aimee Imlay
Lindsay Kuehn
Allen Franco
Danielle Diamond
其他書名
A State-by-State Guide to Understanding and Transforming the Right to Farm
出版
UNC Press Books
, 2023-09-14
主題
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / General
Social Science / Agriculture & Food
Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy
Social Science / Sociology / Rural
ISBN
1469674602
9781469674605
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=iIK2EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
The right to farm is essential to everyone's survival. Since the late 1970s, states across the nation have adopted so-called right-to-farm laws to limit nuisance suits loosely related to agriculture. But since their adoption, there has yet to be a comprehensive analysis of what these laws do and who they benefit. This book offers the first national analysis and guide to these laws. It reveals that they generally benefit the largest operators, like processing plants, while traditional farmers benefit the least. Disfavored most of all are those seeking to defend their homes and environment against multinational corporations that use right-to-farm laws to strip neighboring owners of their property rights. Through what the book calls the "midburden," right-to-farm laws dispossess the many in favor of the few, paving the path to rural poverty.
Empty Fields, Empty Promises
summarizes every state's right-to-farm laws to help readers track and navigate their local and regional legal landscape. The book concludes by offering paths forward for a more distributed and democratic agrifood system that achieves agricultural, rural, and environmental justice.