Why I’d Rather Be a Team Big Dissident, Than a Team Small Cheerleader (On making positive changes.)

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2. There's a whole bunch of things

to discuss just in that one excerpt. Why not narrow it down a bit?

Industrial agriculture: should "liberals" work to get rid of it, or to change it?

I guess it depends upon which kind of liberal one is: the economic neo-liberal, or a social liberal?

I'd rather get rid of it, for some reasons I think are valid:

1. "Industrial" agriculture is about capitalistic profit, not about feeding people. Some giant multi-national corporations meddling with the food supply for their own profit, and owning the means of production, is not something I'm comfortable with.

2. And while large scale food production seems necessary to feed our over-burdened, over-populated planet of people, I think we can feed people in other ways.

3. The closer food production is to the people being fed, the better I like it. People with control over their own food supply, working to actually feed themselves and others...a novel concept.

4. "Industrial" agriculture is about mass production, not about healthy food.

I'd rather see control of the food supply belong to family-owned farms, co-ops, community gardens, etc.