If maximum-short-term-return monoculture is as you say - responsible for alleviating abject poverty etc. and there was/is no viable alternatives, then diet is a

If maximum-short-term-return monoculture is as you say - responsible for alleviating abject poverty etc. and there was/is no viable alternatives, then diet is all that's left to improve on. I dont share that view of the modern history of agricultural development - that it is the best that could have happened and as good as it gets. Without having the time to refute that outlook, I'm just noticing that your appeal to not forget it made or linked no cases to support it.