The Public Interest

The environmentalist assault on agriculture

Karl Zinmeister

Summer 1993

RECENTLY, environmentalists have "discovered" agriculture. Sleepy old farm issues like land use, soil conservation, and animal husbandry are attracting fresh attention, and farmers increasingly find themselves faced off against a horde of regulators.

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