I'm actually in the process of founding a small farm :-) I tend to conflate the food industry with the food mafia though, and I'm highly skeptical of the long

I'm actually in the process of founding a small farm :-) I tend to conflate the food industry with the food mafia though, and I'm highly skeptical of the long term prospects of civilization if we pursue our growth-based economy. Resources on earth are finite, efficiency can't rise past (or approach) 100%, and the amount of entropy we generate today is already too high for the rest of the biosphere, leading to its collapse.