Like I said, Jak, and what you can't refute, is that the system you subscribe to is fundamentally flawed.
What you seem to have trouble grasping is that simply defaulting to greater and greater layers of abstraction when your nose is rubbed in your own bullshit isn't really a form of argumentation. In other words, rejecting "the system I subscribe to" is a rejection of the fundamental dynamics of societal evolution.
Monoculture doesn't work long term.
That doesn't make any fucking sense.
Diversification is paramount.
Yet another breathtakingly stupid and meaningless assertion.
There's as much "diversity" in modern production agricultural practices as in any other element of society.
Suburban sprawl and "cheap" cars have contributed to cause the current dilemma
Except we're not in a dilemma.
You're simply fabricating a "crisis" because its needed to sustain the myopic, self-loathing ideology that gives your life meaning.
The poor in Costa Rica are a lot happier than most of the rich folks I know in the US
Your anecdotal, self-serving horsehit is duly noted.
You think grain fed beef--which, by the way, in as little as 2 weeks changes the fatty acid profile and turns it from a health food into a junk food--is tastier than grass fed
I don't merely "think" it. I observe it.
I'd put my Nelores up against your Beefmasters any day
And I'll put my market share up against yours.
Cut off your water and grain subsidies and your beef would be many times higher to produce, and profit would escape you entirely.
We produce our own water, for starters, by pumping it out of the ground. And, like most cattle producers, we don't use grain subsidies because we don't raise grain. And in fact (assuming retained ownership through the feed-out phase) we would make a great deal more if we didn't feed them out.
But that's where the demand is, and the job is to meet the demand.
Other than the fact that you don't know what the fuck you're talking about---and couldn't tell me what end of a cow gets up first---you also have an atrociously fucked understanding of market economics. You don't produce a product no one wants and then piss your pants when someone else does.
But you bitch about the displacement of "indigenous" peoples and claim some guilt on that score.
What are you talking about?
You don't know the life I lead.
Perhaps not, but I'm certain it has little to do with producing much of anything other than left-wing preening from a position of sheer ignorance.
