I won’t even touch the statement “monoculture in large plots is unnatural”, but I’d like to know how you come to the conclusion that farming is being done so badly? It is so easy to sit from where you are and bitch about an industry you know nothing about. Local farming isn’t dead because of pharma, local farming is dead because of poor governmental policy and private equity.

As far as eating local, sure, if you think that’s how it should be, fantastic, but you better damn well get rid of any salt and pepper you have that isn’t sourced locally. You can live off of berries and wild game.