{"id":5362,"date":"2019-10-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-prod.greenpeace.org\/usa\/sustainable-agriculture\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T12:35:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:35:43","slug":"sustainable-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/sustainable-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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Promoting sustainable food<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Food that\u2019s good for people and the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Where does your food come from? <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Right now, most of us do not know where our food comes from. A greedy elite are industrializing, commodifying and controlling every aspect of our food system \u2014 from genome to grocery store. They\u2019re growing our food on huge monoculture farms, spraying genetically modified crops with obscene amounts of chemicals and feeding these crops to factory-farmed animals.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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The cost of greed<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The result is a broken system: soils drained of nutrients, poisoned waterways and the destruction of a precious diversity of crop varieties that have enabled human societies to thrive from the mountains to the coast for millennia. At the other end of the food chain, urban consumers \u2014 especially the poor \u2014 have little choice but to buy pre-packaged food built devoid of nutrition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feeding the world\u2019s growing population is no small challenge. But the false solutions pushed by big industrial farming corporations, GMOs and toxic pesticides, to name a few \u2014 come at steep costs for the environment and human health.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

Did You Know?<\/h2>\n\n