I lived on an Australian farm for three months last year, and again, this year.
The belief there was that a growning number of urbanites thought Australian farmers were superfluous.
“We don’t need the farmers. Just import all our food.” seemed to be the basic idea.
or better yet, just get it at the supermarket ...
South Africa getting ready to see what’s it like to import all their food
There is the story of someone who found out about a slaughterhouse. Cows would be led in, stunned, killed, and butchered so that people could eat them. Some gentle soul was horrified that anyone would do such a thing -- "Why don't you just go to the supermarket and buy your meat there, like everyone else??" they said.
I live in New Jersey commonly called the Garden State for its rich soil and farms. Those farms are being rapidly sold off because the offspring of farmers will not farm and the government taxes and regulates the farmer to death. The best option is to sell the land. Fertile land is being gobbled up by developers as the Farmers retire in Florida. NJ is becoming the concrete and asphalt state. Nobody cares that we import so much food from Mexico and China?