The Socialist Party envisions a system of organic agriculture based on farming cooperatives.
1- We support agricultural worker cooperatives, and oppose large corporate factory farms that lower food quality, cause
2- We call for a farm price support system that guarantees farmers a return on the full cost of production.
3- We call for low-cost loans, grants, and technical help to farmers including help to shift farm production from non-essentials to
4- We encourage the reintroduction of hemp farming.
5- We support the right of farmers and farm workers to organize unions for good wages, housing, and working conditions
6- We support the right of farmers and farm workers to be included in negotiating contracts with canneries as well as growers.
7- We support land use planning to protect farmland from suburban sprawl.
8- We encourage plant diversity, and oppose the creating, patenting, and licensing of life forms.
9- We call for the labeling of artificially genetically altered food, and the banning of genetically altered seeds to make them
10- We call for the democratic control of agricultural research and the complete testing of agricultural products.
11- We support inspections of domestic and imported agricultural products to make sure they meet US standards for food safety,
12- We call for country-of-origin labeling on agricultural products.
13- We call for the reassessment of all international trade negotiations in light of workers, farmers, consumers, and
14- We call for the production of agriculturally produced and environmentally sound alternative fuels to reduce our dependence
15- We support research toward the elimination of the use of pesticides. Human Rights
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