Mitch to Farmers: Suck It

That is what his administration is saying when it tries to force megafarm on communities. Most dislike them due to pollution, which isn't a small consideration given that the state's most prolific water polluter is a hog megafarm in the Western part of the state. But megafarms are lethal to the family farm, they take the bottom out of market prices making it impossible for family farms to make any profit. Note that as these prices have fallen, food hasn't become any cheaper at the grocery store, megafarm aren't about reducing our costs, just theirs.

So why is this so important?

"Indiana has ignored agriculture economic development for years, Miller said. Now, it's time to get with it. Megafarms provide jobs. Most importantly, the large amount of manure can be a source of new bio-fuels."

So are minimum wage jobs, worth the destruction of a way of life? Is it really worth destroying the bedrock of rural communities, the family farm, to create a few more jobs to pad Mitch's numbers? Or is this more about the money these corporations provide Mitch's re-election?