This article explores how the Farm Inheritance Tax fits into a much longer pattern of policies that have steadily weakened independent farming over the past 50 years. It argues that the pressure on small, family‑run farms is not accidental or isolated, but part of a wider shift toward centralised control of food, land and markets – a shift that threatens genuine food security and community independence. It calls for farmers and the public to rethink their relationship with the current system and consider rebuilding direct, localised food networks before traditional farming becomes unsustainable or disappears entirely.