Changing Farming & Food Laws Starts With Us

Farming and food laws will not change as long as we continue to support the wrongdoers. They will not change while we allow ourselves to be misled by clever marketing, buzzwords, and trends. And they certainly won’t change if we keep following like sheep buying what we’re told to buy instead of questioning where our food comes from, how it’s grown, and who truly benefits.

Farming and food is big money. Massive money. Over time, laws that were meant to protect farmers, consumers, and land have been twisted to do the opposite. Instead of supporting transparency, health, and sustainability, many laws now divert money toward corporations, non profits, middlemen, and systems that profit from confusion rather than truth. The result is a marketplace where labels matter more than practices, and marketing matters more than integrity.

For the past 25 years, Melanie of Nature’s Touch Nursery & Harvest has been doing the exact opposite of what the industrial food system rewards. She has been educating, not advertising. She has been transparent and honest about how the food she farms, represents, and sells is exactly what you are buying, no hidden steps, no misleading claims, no trendy language designed to distract. The soil is right there. The stock is right there. The process is right in front of you.

And yet, customers are still lost.

They want to believe in a label more than a farmer.
They want to follow a trend more than trust someone who has invested decades into the same land.
They want the comfort of a slogan instead of the responsibility of understanding.

This is how the system stays broken.

When consumers ignore real farmers in favor of marketing-driven narratives, they unintentionally support the very laws and systems that harm small farms, local food security, and honest agriculture. Every dollar spent based on hype instead of truth reinforces a food system built on illusion rather than accountability.

Real change doesn’t start in government offices. it starts at the checkout line. It starts when people stop rewarding dishonesty, stop outsourcing their thinking to labels, and stop dismissing farmers who are willing to show their work. Transparency should not be punished by confusion, and integrity should not lose to branding.

If we want better farming and food laws, we must first become better food citizens. That means listening to the people who have dirt under their nails, not just logos on their packaging. It means valuing long-term stewardship over short-term trends. And it means choosing to support those who are honest even when the truth isn’t wrapped in a shiny label.

The food system will only change when we do.