I heard about this TED talk today on This American Life.
The story on the radio involved more detail about Barber's farm in New York, but Barber's speech raises an interesting question: Is industrial agriculture necessary, or can we raise better food in more natural arrangements? I would guess that in order to feed 7 billion people, we actually need to do a good bit of industrial agriculture. Maybe if we cut way back on meat and dairy consumption, we would be able to get away from factory-style meat production, but I don't know if we could possibly raise enough food if we got away from monoculture of grains. He makes the point that we could raise better, more humanely produced food if we got away from industrial agriculture, but I don't think we could raise enough.
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