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Hamilton taught for two years at the University of Arkansas and, from 1979- 1981, was an Assistant Attorney General in the Farm Division of the Iowa Department of Justice . He is a former president of the American Agricultural Law Association
"How Industrialization is Restructuring Food Production" is an article from the Leopold Letter (vol. 6 nos. 1,2) by Neil Hamilton.
At the beginning of this article Hamilton states, "There are a body of assumptions about agriculture. These include:
We are moving away from this sort of agriculture. Now comes industrialization. Contract production of livestock can turn farmers into low-paid, piece-work employees with limited opportunity."
"Corporate "farmers" are not true farmers, just as bank tellers are not bankers."
"The status of food producers, as either farmers or workers, influences many aspects of food and agricultural policy. The changing structure of agriculture has many implications for society."
"Who will be the decision-makers for agriculture on matters such as environmental protection or adoption of new technologiesTechnology ( Gr. tau;εχνολογια < τεχνη "craftsmanship" + λογος "word, reckoning" + the suffix ια) has more than one definition.?"
"We are building a concentrated system of land ownership and economic controlEconomics is the social science studying how society uses its limited resources to meet desires and wants. Put otherwise, economics studies what, how and for whom society produces. This involves analyzing the production, distribution and consumption of go which was fled by our ancestors."
"We need to reignite the debate over industrialization."