For centuries people got their food from their own backyard/land, growing their own veggies, curing their meat, fresh milk and eggs.
Kind of sad things changed. Those skills are now lost to most people. Food is big business, travels across the country so not as fresh, and prices keep getting higher.
“For centuries people got their food from their own backyard/land, growing their own veggies, curing their meat, fresh milk and eggs.
Kind of sad things changed. Those skills are now lost to most people. Food is big business, travels across the country so not as fresh, and prices keep getting higher.”
All of complex civilization relies on specialization. The stone masons and artists that created Greek and Roman buildings were not farmers. In Rome most homes in the city had no kitchens. The Romans relied on food vendors, who, in turn relied on farmers. If we own iPhones and TV’s we can be certain the people building them are not growing their own food.
There is a danger to specialization. We have created a fragile civilization that depends on everything working correctly. Throw in a fuel shortage or a massive EMI strike and people will begin starving almost immediately. The power was out for weeks in several counties in Florida following Michael. The government shipped in and gave away MRE’s.
In any major war now it is likely more people will die of starvation than in the actual conflict.
In my former McMansion neighborhood it was against the county ordinance to have any farm animal and a garden visible from the street had better not contain anything resembling food products or the HOA would send a nasty letter threatening a lawsuit.
As for my present rural location, I can’t grow anything the deer like as they hide in the patch of thick woods between me and the dirt road. The little buggers watch me plant stuff and barely wait until dark to eat it.