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Default Mark Bittman has an opinion piece about the future of our food


blake murphy wrote:
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> On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 15:50:13 -0800 (PST), ImStillMags wrote:
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> > 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.