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The
global trading of food is thought to be one of the most serious
threats to family farmers in the U.S. and abroad, because local,
individual farmers cannot compete with the flood of low-cost food
imports from other countries.
Since the 1994 signing of NAFTA, which linked the economies of the United States, Canada and Mexico, over 100,000 family farmers in the U.S. were forced out of farming, while 11 percent of Canadian family farms went under. International trade agreements like NAFTA create unfair and unstable markets for small and independent producers. Factory farms and an industrial system of agriculture force farmers out of business and off the land.
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