>I thought the problem was capitalist farming, not "industrial" farming. > >Doug
No, I meant exactly what I said. It is a function of what John Bellamy Foster calls the "metabolic rift". It doesn't matter particularly where you put a factory. The same thing is not true about farms. Right now pork production is localized in North Carolina while the feed is produced in Iowa. This has had disastrous consequences for our water and for our soil and for our health. Socialism cannot simply appropriate this type of production and make it work for the common good.
