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And farmers can not see it. They can't. They've been fed industry propaganda about being more productive and "feeding the world" since Earl Butz and they believe it. I know. I've been fed the same propaganda for years and for a long time I believed it too.
Now, a more uncomfortable question. Can we really effect meaningful change on the industrial food delivery system in the developed world? From the farm, to the factory, to the center aisles of the grocery store, food products are the norm. Our population is still growing. I have read and believe in a lot of the pastoral ag and food writers of modern times, from Wendell Berry to James rebanks to Michael Pollan. Even back to Rachel Carson and Leopold's A Sand County Almanac. But can we really realize what those folks envision, or are we too committed to cheap food at this point? And if we can't, as agriculturalists, consumers, eaters, are we just virtue signaling by trying?