The Great Plains cattle and monoculture economy is failing

Evidence

It’s often said that change always happens; the question is: Who determines the direction of the change? The fact is that the Great Plains are transforming, and the region’s cattle, monoculture, and crop economy is changing, because it does not work. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 780

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: A quarter of the US heartland has reverted to frontier status — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 781; The northern plains farm economy remains in deep crisis — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 788; Capitalism’s market expansion inherently disrupts soil and displaces subsistence farmers — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 278

Broader Connections

• The northern plains farm economy remains in deep crisis #corroborates (0.90) — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 788
• Capitalism’s market expansion inherently disrupts soil and displaces subsistence farmers #expands (0.78) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 278