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Right. Industrialized, capital-intensive farming isn't necessarily more agriculturally efficient, and and it has a lot of cost externalization that is causing g
by beat 11y ago
Right. Industrialized, capital-intensive farming isn't necessarily more agriculturally efficient, and and it has a lot of cost externalization that is causing global suffering. But it's more powerful financially. And our subsidy system is built to strengthen industrial farming at the expense of integrated family farming. Not surprising, considering one of the benefits of capital-centric economics is the ability to exercise concentrated political influence.
So how do we encourage a return to family farming (and the food cost increase that comes with it) at a national, or global scale? I think the first step is admitting we have a problem, and the solution is NOT more industrialization and more efficiency.