In today's society, it seems as if food is complementary. A child is fed by its parents, adolescents disburse from their own funds and in turn it revolves around the adults who just use the checkbook or credit card while in the checkout lane. It seems as if we have lost the value of what it takes and what it took in the past to produce food. As each day continues to roll by, more and more daily nutrition is being artificially flavored or created, and in the future, farmers and farms will cease to exist. During the Victorian Age, farmers were one of the leading producers of food. To reinstate the fact then that they were a keen source of food, something called a Corn Law came into effect. What was at one time viewed as the precautions of the future of agriculture development has now become the harsh reality of machine production versus a farmer's production. In the present day it would make sense for humans to have an acknowledgement of how farmers came to be today and were not ousted then by the rising market. .
During the Victorian Period, the British blockaded the European continent, hoping to isolate the Napoleonic Empire, which proved to be an economic tactic on the hardships of agriculture consumerism and innovation, and bring economic hardship to the French. ("The Corn Laws"). The Napoleonic Wars resulted in gratifying farming which initiated the first Corn Law. This law stated that no foreign corn would be allowed into Britain until domestic corn reached a price of 80 shillings per quarter. In order for farmers to keep a high trading price, the Corn Laws were designed to protect farmers and landholders by encouraging the export and limiting the import of produce when prices became too low. Akin to today's economy, when a product or something of value becomes available at a higher price, the normal buyers of this product start to shade away. The most ethical reason that the good was being sold at such a high price was because it was in high demand.