“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.”
The problem is they are trying to put their personal standards on everyone.. Yes, organic food is better (as a foodie) but the person who normally cannot even buy corn doesn’t care how it was grown, they just need food.. There is the market for both, with out having to ‘take out’ the other..