Cy on Nostr: It's a bit of a sleight of hand, that argument. It paints small scale farmers as ...

It's a bit of a sleight of hand, that argument. It paints small scale farmers as naive nancies who have no grasp on reality outside of their chai latte. The reality is that large scale agribusiness does not work. It wastes fossil fuels and fertilizer, and requires big industrial machinery and trucking fleets, for no purpose other than to concentrate wealth. What we should be focusing on is the farm romanticizers who talk about permaculture and community gardens, and how to keep the means of production (of food) in the hands of the people actually eating the food. There's really important work being done here, and people who farm to feed themselves are the ignorant ones, struggling when they could look into all of human history and see us farming to feed ourselves together. We already do grow our own food. All of humanity does. The question is how to do it?

Moving away from massive farming oligarchies doesn't mean putting on leopard skins and going roaming around the grasslands with clubs.