From my understanding, it's only the megacorp farming operations that cause this supposed deforestation. Most small farmholders, especially coffee, cocoa, wood and cattle operate in relative harmony with the local environment, but don't generate the margins that would lure investment capital.
IMHO, we need to move back to the independent family farm model, although it would likely raise prices, although some of the robotic solutions, if more cost effective, could mitigate that.
I agree and think their is a happy medium. These large, corporate agricultural operations create a lot of vulnerability in the food supply chain. One fire kills 18,000 cows, or one positive PCR test at a chicken farm results in a million chickens destroyed.
Maybe we can never go back to the small family farm model of my Grandparents, but we need to move away from the big factory farm model because it is, in reality, a major security risk.
One mysterious explosion that by ask Tricia would have left a crater the size of a small mountain, and zero PCR tests, per the farmers, no one ever arrived to conduct a test of the birds, but officials showed up claiming a positive. When no test had been done.
From my understanding, it's only the megacorp farming operations that cause this supposed deforestation. Most small farmholders, especially coffee, cocoa, wood and cattle operate in relative harmony with the local environment, but don't generate the margins that would lure investment capital.
IMHO, we need to move back to the independent family farm model, although it would likely raise prices, although some of the robotic solutions, if more cost effective, could mitigate that.
I agree and think their is a happy medium. These large, corporate agricultural operations create a lot of vulnerability in the food supply chain. One fire kills 18,000 cows, or one positive PCR test at a chicken farm results in a million chickens destroyed.
Maybe we can never go back to the small family farm model of my Grandparents, but we need to move away from the big factory farm model because it is, in reality, a major security risk.
One mysterious explosion that by ask Tricia would have left a crater the size of a small mountain, and zero PCR tests, per the farmers, no one ever arrived to conduct a test of the birds, but officials showed up claiming a positive. When no test had been done.