General Suburban Updates and Rumours

[tomh009]

So, to the points made on page 62 - we protected a lot of our farmland in Southern Ontario, but a lot of that agriculture is just for cash crop using Joedelay Highhoe's point: that it's often just used for animal feed and other industrial uses. And then clasher made a good point that we could instead be using this farmland to grow crops to eat rather than feeding it to animals/selling it for industrial uses...and then we wouldn't have to import produce from Mexico and the USA to eat. But unfortunately, since we built this neoliberal, globalized capitalist society we pretty much can't do that anymore.

Oh, we could still do it. The farmers can choose what they grow and who they sell it to.

But if we start to make different choices about what we eat, there will be more farmers growing and selling that locally, instead of just growing animal feed.