blake murphy wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 15:50:13 -0800 (PST), ImStillMags wrote:
>
> > http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com...or-the-future/
> >
> > He's right on as far as I'm concerned.
>
> i don't think you can provide the variety of food at (sorta) low prices to
> people that they are now used to without relying to some extent on
> factory-scale farming. (now, if you want to limit eating meat to once or
> twice a week, maybe.) i'd be careful what you wish for - the diet of most
> people before, say, 1900 was not all that exciting.
>
> i'm not saying the current system is perfect, but that the idealized past
> never really existed.
>
> your pal,
> blake
There are only two options:
- Control the human population
- Live with the need for factory scale farming.