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Originally Posted by island911
When Dot sez "And that is actually the way it should be."( locavore) I think; what a spoiled Utopian idiot. |
I'm not sure how putting virtually the country's entire agribusiness into the hands of 5 or 6 large conglomerates promotes a stable food supply. You have hugely long supply and distribution chains that are entirely dependent on the the price of fossil fuel. And the entire house of cards is dependent on subsidies of cheap corn and soybean crapola.
You have the corporate pressures on the top and bottom ends. Nutrition becomes irrelevant. The entire fecking freight train is ultimately driven by "shareholder value".
I mean, do you really not see anything wrong with this picture?
Imagine if things were like France where people eat mostly regionally and seasonally—and agriculture was everywhere. Who has the more stable food supply?