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"Remember: Only you should be growing and handling the food that you eat. Anytime a butt scratching profit pimp handles food that you will eventually eat, your heading for trouble. Only you should handle your own food."
While living off the land like an Amish farmer is an admirable goal, society as we know it would fall if we returned to a society of individualist agrarians. If we were all spending our time and effort growing enough foodstuffs to support ourselves, we'd have to own small farms with varied livestock. We'd have to invest in equipment and training and seed. We'd need different land distribution. We wouldn't, as a society, have resources available to create medications, have doctors, or higher education, much less national defense. You could have no factory workers if every person was required to raise their own food. Those unable to master agriculture (the retarded, the indigent, the elderly or the infirm) would simply die unless they allowed someone else, perhaps a "butt scratching profit pimp" to handle their food for them.
I think this idea is pretty stupid. There's nothing wrong with allowing other people to handle your food, grow it, prepare it or deliver it. Task specialization vastly increases our society's techological level and standard of living. It's a good thing.
Mary Baker East Side
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