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Surely there is an agreeable third option between life-and-death subsistence farming and spiritually/ecologically/gustatorily desolate conglomerate monocrop agr
by randusername 1mo ago
Surely there is an agreeable third option between life-and-death subsistence farming and spiritually/ecologically/gustatorily desolate conglomerate monocrop agriculture.
Food literally grows on trees.
- woah 1mo agoPay 2x for organic vegetables at the fancy grocery store
- ch4s3 1mo agoOrganic vegetables are still monocrops grown by large companies, which I don’t think is a bad thing. Large scale agriculture has made food plentiful and cheap, that’s a good thing. We’ve eliminated famines in every nation with a stable government and market access outside or war zones.
- insensible 1mo agoAlso, Berry wrote a foreword to one of Joel Salatin’s books. Modern intensive rotational grazing imitates nature, improves soil, and produces an important crop very profitably at scale.