I’d like to read your letter.
“the corporate farms they love to trash allow food production on such a scale that one farm can send food around the entire world instead of just their community.”
You may not agree with their politics, but the following paragraph from the article makes a good point. Small family farms make more sense in many ways and, generally speaking, produce a higher quality product.
“Pollan extols the virtues of independent, small-scale food producers who raise pasture-fed livestock in a sustainable and ethical manner. In contrast, he provides a compelling critique of factory farms, which cram thousands of cows, pigs or chickens into rows of cages in warehouses, feed them drugs to plump up their meat and fight off the illnesses caused by these inhumane conditions, and produce innumerable tons of environmentally destructive animal waste.”
I agree with you on this article.
It seems to me that ultra liberals like to do every thing by fad or whats currently hip.
Most of these environmental wackos do not understand that there is a trade off to be paid for the life style they pursue.
What this author dosen’t realize is that she is not striking a blow for the environment.
She is however helping keep smaller farms going and that is a good thing.
She may not also realize that the number of small farms left in the US would not support all the pompous liberals who want to eat locally grown meat.
Personally I wish the Veggie Burger lovers would not switch back to real meat.
The price of Hamburger is high enough.
However, should any of the current Democrats get elected to POTUS we may all need victory gardens and small farms.
Just the lowly opinion of a red state wannabe.