Pay More For Your Food

With each passing year the number farms is decreasing rapidly. The government wants to keep food at a cheap and resonable price. This causes farmers to lose money because the governemnt tries to control the cost of food. Many farmers end up having to pay more to produce the food than they actually make. This puts many farmers out of business. Also our environment is being depleated. The government had also driven us to buy processed foods with are not from the farmers and there for take away more revenue from them. The US only spends 11% of their income on food while other countries spend up to %20 for their food. The government has put policies into place but the hidden cost is the damage to the environment.
One idea was to buy food directly from the farmers. Farmers then know their demand prior to the season. For example, buyers will order the amount of chickens that they want for the upcoming year and then the chickens will be delivered directly to them. The down side to this is how many people know how to kill the chicken and then make it into editable food or how many people actually want to do that. There is a problem but is buying direct from the farmers the way to fix it?