Those farms are abandoned, and have returned to forest cover, precisely because modern agricultural methods have made it possible to raise plenty of food using

Those farms are abandoned, and have returned to forest cover, precisely because modern agricultural methods have made it possible to raise plenty of food using far less land than the "traditional" "organic" methods ever did. Just as I said. I'm not sure why that counts as "moving goalposts". And my "endgame" here is to not doom billions of people in the Third World to starvation because modern agricultural methods offend the sensibilities of privileged white people living in an affluent society.