> In an effort to make diets and agriculture “sustainable,” urban bureaucrats make policy based on industrial agricultural data, completely ignoring experience

> In an effort to make diets and agriculture “sustainable,” urban bureaucrats make policy based on industrial agricultural data, completely ignoring experience and practices coming out of holistically managed operations. A general irritation I have with conservatives, and this article is a perfect example, is when they don't know-- or pretend not to know-- who actually pulls the levers of power. American agricultural policy is set first by mega-agribusinesses, and second by politicians in Midwestern states cynically pandering to the dwindling number of family farms that still remain. The sorts of vegan activists this author is panicking about are concentrated in coastal states who have little to no ability to influence the Farm Bill. They simply don't matter. > Chief among these “farm-free” advocates is George Monbiot, a vegan activist and, naturally, a Guardian columnist. Come the fuck on. A Guardian columnist has about as much influence on American ag policy as my cat.