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posted 1 year ago by EJGeneric (+13 / -0 )
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1 year ago 2 points (+2 / -0 ) 1 child
good to see more traffic here
 
and would be nice to see more gardens
 
The thing is, it can be a good thing that the U.S. grows less of its own food
 
It's really a question of how many gains you want to make economically and how you want to engage in division of labor
 
Because it's simple economics that if you can say work as a programmer for double the money you can farming, then if you outsource the food production somewhere else while you're a programmer, you make more money and everyone can kind of "win" with there being higher productivity
 
however, this doesn't work out purely because we don't live in a perfect world. If we didn't grow any of our own food, and the people we get our food from one day decided they don't want to sell to us, we would face food shortages.
 
So I suspect there may be some conversations to be had about the tradeoffs between gains from division of labor versus security of doing some of these things ourselves
 
It's an open question of how much risk people want to take
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1 year ago 1 point (+1 / -0 ) 1 child
If you view the core of the nation as a Family unit Gardens make more sense. Not everyone is meant to garden. The larger family or neighbors can grow more to fill a niche or grow a cash crop. Most can garden or program. Only a few will excel at this pursuit. Quality of life goes up.
 
If you think growing food industrially the quantity goes up and the nutritional content goes down. There can be a happy balance between the industrial food producers, small farms, those wanting to produce a cash crop to those only wanting better food/ food security for their immediate family.
 
If you go all in with absolute industrial farming the quality of goods goes down dramatically, and people are viewed as moveable economic units. Quality of life goes down.
 
Food sovereignty breeds National sovereignty. This applies back down to cultural cohesion. The price of cheap food and cheap labor leads to bringing in outside peoples and influences.
 
With the advancement in agriculture and permaculture homestead and small farm holdings [5-10 acres] can become more productive. We are no longer in the age of subsistence farming techniques alone. [Besides, 100acre and bigger holding of any quality will need to be passed down within families. Those holding are being bought up by foreign countries and multinational corps]
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1 year ago 1 point (+1 / -0 )
> family unit
 
Amen.
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1 year ago 0 points (+0 / -0 ) 1 child
many in rural white areas grow gardens each year and always have.
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1 year ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
I live in semi-rural to rural. Most leave acres baren because of the convenience of Walmart.
 
 
 
Are you getting city fags out in your area squatting on fertile land?
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