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> actual homestead actually producing food How much land do you have under cultivation, what is your growing season, and how much water do you consume? The fa
by afarrell 11y ago
> actual homestead actually producing food
How much land do you have under cultivation, what is your growing season, and how much water do you consume?
The fact that your farm can feed your family is not enough to show that your methods, if scaled up, could feed 315 million Americans (plus an unknown number of people we export to) on 914 million acres of farmland.
The fact that the argument also comes from corporations does not change its mathematics.
- erikpukinskis 11y agoJeez, do the math. 3 acres per person. You can grow millions of calories per year per acre. 2500 calories times 365 days is only about a million calories. Potatoes are 17 million calories per acre. There's plenty of space. The problem is meat.