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> Farmers markets, gardening, hunting, raising chickens, etc are absolutely options. You’ve never seriously tried those things. Farmers market prices? Get out
by relaxing 2y ago
> Farmers markets, gardening, hunting, raising chickens, etc are absolutely options.
You’ve never seriously tried those things.
Farmers market prices? Get out.
Gardening? The time investment to keep a garden large enough to make a significant dent in one’s grocery bill is prohibitive.
Have fun having your life revolve around raising livestock.
Hunting, maybe if you live near public game lands, have the tools and desire to butcher your own meat.
In all cases the economies of scale in industrial farming trumps local operations.
- _heimdall 2y agoWe may just live in very different places. When I lived in Seattle farmers market prices were crazy. Living in a different part of the country and in a part of town closer to farmers, our prices are much better. We also use a local CSA, $20 per week for a decent amount of whatever is in season. I also have a pretty large garden, we don't spend all that much time on it. We don't plant as intensively as most people think about. We don't till and keep the dirt bare, its more of a food forest at this point but we do still plant annual produce in rows in some areas. We spend maybe 3 hours per week total in the garden during the summer. Raising livestock doesn't mean your life has to revolve around them, its all up to how you choose to raise them and what you raise. > In all cases the economies of scale in industrial farming trumps local operations. Have you ever been to an industrial farm, feed lot, chicken house, or slaughterhouse? If not I'd hold judgement on the value of that scale until you see how the animals are actually raised and treated. I'd extend that to crop fields as well, though its harder to empathize with what a plant when they're so different from us.