Every day people send me, ”We should just grow our own!” as a solution to pretty much any foodie issue, from climate change to food security. As a botanist who studies crop production, I should prob clear up that 7 billion of us growing our own would be a ecological nightmare*.
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I still do it because (a) I've got the land, so why not, (b) I care about animal welfare, (c) I enjoy the higher quality of the food, (d) it's a hobby. ...but replacing industrial farming w 7 B hobby farms would be a catastrope.
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Trying not to sound like too big of a damn hippy, I do think that wen you add back the externalities of the industrial ag system, the gap gets a lot smaller
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