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>if any, it is a regression in terms of feeding the world's growing population. Food security is a distribution problem, not a production problem. We're alread
by naravara 8y ago
>if any, it is a regression in terms of feeding the world's growing population.
Food security is a distribution problem, not a production problem. We're already producing far far more food than we consume or would even need to consume. Big Ag likes to pretend they need higher yields in order to feed the hungry but they're full of it. They want to produce more for cheaper and pocket the margin, but they're not going to do jack squat to get that production out to the people who need it.
- loeg 8y agoBoth can be problems at the same time. I think you raise a valid concern, but I don't believe it dismisses the yield/density problem in any way. I don't think there's any reason to vilify agricultural businesses in particular for being profit-seeking capitalist corporations.
- naravara 8y ago>I don't think there's any reason to vilify agricultural businesses in particular for being profit-seeking capitalist corporations. It's not about the line of business. It's about disingenuously gussying up the marketing around their own profit maximization by pretending they're being humanitarian. Sort of like "Greenwashing." Everyone does it, but so many people depend on subsistence farming that it comes across as especially crass. Sure they're not alone, but there is plenty of scorn to go around for bottling companies taking up all the ground water, Pharma companies abusing IP law to fleece sick people, etc. There's no reason to be stingy.