THE POLARIZATION SURROUNDING AGRICULTURE IN AMERICA.

TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION II. POLITICAL POLARIZATION AND AGRICULTURE A. The Polarization Between the Political Right and Left B. The Polarization Between Producers and Politicians III. SOCIAL POLARIZATION AND [...]
This Note evaluates the divides surrounding agricultural production in the United States. Part One lays out how the agricultural industry's relationship with society evolved from the founding of the nation to the twenty-first century. Part Two explores the way politics create and grow division surrounding agricultural policy between political parties and how farmers feel divided from the political process. Part Three takes up how farmers and society are separated in terms of the growing climate change and anti-meat diet movements. Part Four concludes by considering how farmers are being affected by the issues laid out in Part Two and Part Three in terms of the social stigma they face and the growing mental health crisis in rural America.