[MrB]

Home gardening leads to individual independence, comrade,
and you wouldn’t want to be “infected” with that,
because the only cure is death or “re-education”.

[SoCal Pubbie]

“Home gardening leads to individual independence, comrade,...”

Does it? If the answer is having to raise your own food, then that's hardly independence. It is forced labor necessitated by the oppressive policies of an overreaching regime. I don't want to be a farmer. I want to enjoy a healthy society where free enterprise allows us the freedom to be a factory worker, or a doctor, or an artist or whatever our skills and hard work allow us to achieve. I do not want to be forced to spend a certain amount of my time directly producing so much of my own basic staples.

We live in the 21st century. I do not want to return to the life of a serf from 500 years ago.

[Pecos]

My point, exactly.