Farms Not Arms is an organization of farmers who wants to provide work opportunities for Iraqi War veterans and give rural people a voice against war.
Michael: We realize that agribusiness opposes the vision of holding onto family farms, and opposes strengthening our rural communities and family farms that are growing local produce. 90 percent of the fuel spent in our food production system is the distribution, only ten percent in actual production. So let’s grow the produce closer to home. Let’s grow our own fuels. Let’s support the Midwest and get out of the wars in the Middle East. Let’s bring veterans back to work on our farms as a place to heal and to gain vocational training. As the people who are taking care of the land and feeding the country, we can help bring our country back to earth and get it a little more grounded, and offer not just a protest against the war but a positive alternative of a better way of living and a more democratic society based on the Jeffersonian concepts of distribution of land, production, wealth and power.
