>From: "bon moun" >
None of this changes the fact that when the supply of food falls to a given
>aggregate level, then starvation, somewhere, somehow, is inevitable. The
>increasing share of food grown through mechanization along with the steady
>depletion of petroleum upon which this method of production depends moves
>us
>inexorably closer to an ever more severe disaster when it happens.
>
>Stan
Amen.
Tom
PS Right now if you look at all those thousands of US/Canadian failed family
farms, the fate of the farm itself falls into three categories, two of which
support what I said, Julien.
1) A big ag guy buys them up. (Market forces prevail)
2) Another family member takes over and runs the farm at a loss, keeping the
old folks in the farm house, and "maintaining a tradition". (Market forces
irrelevent, unless you count the "subsidy".)
3) A neighbor takes over cultivation and invests in another growing season.
It fails, another takes over, it fails. Another takes over, it fails.
Another takes over, it fails. Another takes over, it fails. (Resulting in a
farm that serially produces crops at a consistent loss every growing season,
with the [aggregate] farmer continually making the decison to grow at a
loss.) Rarely does the farmland quit producing SOMETHING to eat.
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