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Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Why subsidized? A fair comparison would be subsidized home farming vs. subsidized industrial farming, or neither are subsidized.
The exact problem was discussed in Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott, where he reached a very different and nuanced conclusion. You can have a read if you are truly interested.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Subsidizing home farming isn’t really possible with our current society, and not subsidizing industrial farming could be disastrous and lead to famine.
iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
New Zealand stopped subsidizing farmers, and survives. So we have at least one data point showing that it is possible.
Aux@lemmy.world 1 month ago
New Zealand only grows meat and most of it goes to export. Growing veggies is not effective in general.
Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It does say “yield and cost effectiveness” in the picture, so I’m not emphasizing on availability, but discussing just that.