PETAL, Miss.—Standing in a field where his cattle graze, Ben Simmons takes a long look around the land where his farm sits and recalls a version of Mississippi that no longer exists.
When he was a boy, the country roads surrounding the small town of Petal, Mississippi were dotted with sprawling family farms alive with the sights of tractors harvesting crops and fields lined with cattle and chickens.
“Back then, people knew where their food came from. Most people raised their own food, and those that didn’t knew the people that grew their produce and raised their meat,” Simmons told The Epoch Times….