What's For Dinner?

Tonight: Future Farmers of America When 60,000 FFA/Future Farmers of America youth convened in Louisville and were addressed by Tyson Foods' CEO, a Greenhorns member and young Virginia apple farmer, Eliza Greenman, was there under a banner saying Ban Factory Farming. The show reveals much about the hearts of future young farmers, big ag's bid to capture them, and the country's stakes in what and how they learn. Eliza notes the integrity and respect shown by the teens. She's shocked by the seductiveness of big ag messaging: youth with access to land (their families' farms) are being primed to feed the world in 2050 and be proud of their role. And the listener may hear the consequences of battling agricultural paradigms on young farmers' self-concepts.