This is one of the rare issues where there is sensible middle ground. I'm a big fan of agricultural subsidies (you want food to be produced in wild excess of d

This is one of the rare issues where there is sensible middle ground. I'm a big fan of agricultural subsidies (you want food to be produced in wild excess of demand for a number of reasons), but you can still regulate agricultural practices to eliminate ones which are unnecessarily environmentally destructive for marginal gains in production.