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in The Mother Earth News issue for January-February 1977, McHale says: “The family farmer today is the last holdout against a complete corporate takeover of our lives. If the family farmer isn’t saved, the people will no longer own the land.. .will no longer control their destiny. And when that happens, we’ll no longer have any freedom...”
McHale is known in Pennsylvania as a man who is not afraid to tackle anyone, in behalf of both farmers and consumers, and the interview gives some examples of how he earned his reputation: “I’ve been fighting these ‘bigger is better’ guys for 20 years. They’re always harping about the efficiencies of scale and how the farming and food industries should be consolidated for efficiency. And what they really mean is that all the little people in the farming and food business should wrap up their land and their life’s blood—everything—into one neat package and hand it over to the big guys on a silver platter.. .1 don’t think this country can survive if the family farm doesn’t survive. And the family farm isn’t going to survive if the rural community doesn’t survive. And the rural community isn’t going to survive unless somebody or something with muscle begins to look out for it and to plan for its future.”
JIM McHALE thinks governmental agencies, if they’re^ taken out of the hands of the' “agri-business” giants, is the
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