"Farmers already are required to be environmentally friendly"

Such as dousing land with neonicotinoids that decimate insects and songbirds, growing fields of maize on slopes that causes soil erosion, cultivating hundreds of acres of hedge-free barley prairies, growing Miscanthus elephant grass monoculture for biofuel on land that should be used for growing food, indulging in fads such as linseed that can only be harvested after scorched-earth dessicating herbicide treatment, thousands of acres of oilseed that can be grown only via intensive chemical input and which harbours flea beetles and pollen beetles...