BIG AGRI-BUSINESS

...is 'corporate' farming. It has taken over most of the farming and agriculture in the U.S. & abroad, putting small farmers out of business & replacing workers with high powered machinery, while increasing the pollution we face & depleting the health benefits of the food we get. The resulting loss of jobs and resources has forced many poor, rural towns into "wanting" a prison, thinking it will bring jobs -- jobs guarding the similarly poor, people facing the same kinds of problems in urban areas.