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