Two sides to the coin, and this is from someone who did a term paper on "small scale sustainable" farming while earning his BS in Animal Science. I still believe in what I learned in school-that world hunger is an economic problem, that we have the capability to feed the world, it's just they don't have the money to pay for it. ANYTHING THAT INCREASES THE COST OF FOOD IS MAKING WORLD HUNGER WORSE. Yes small scale farming CAN be done in ways that are more environmentally friendly, but the down side is cost. If the person farming 40 acres gets 10% more from each acre you're still counting on that 40 to provide a living for that person/family, compare that to a BTO who might generate his livelihood from 2,000 acres, we might get slightly less food per acre but the person farming BTO or Commercial is contributing MORE food at a LOWER cost. If we remodel our agriculture into small scale labor intensive practices that's fine but the cost is farmers with a lessor life style working 60 hours a week for probably less than they could make elsewhere and we'll pay MORE for our food. So many of the small scale, organic or eat local initiatives are more a marketing plan than an agricultural practice out universities need to teach the economics alongside the science. Or to put it another way farming is a business we need to teach the young people that want to farm business as well as agricultural science, when I was in school they closed all business classes to non-majors because they were over enrolled, one of the nation's first Land Grant Universities can't get their arms around the fact that agriculture is a business and needs to prepare their students to deal with that reality.
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