If everyone had backyards and time to plant, big agriculture wouldn't be necessary. But most people in western culture don't have that time or space. We are too busy being productive in other areas. He pays other people to do that. And this leads to a need for the large, monolithic agriculture Mr. Terrell shallowly derides.
Modern practices put more food on the table than older techniques.
In the 19th century, Thomas Malthus predicted that the expanding population of London would soon face starvation as the growing number of hungry mouths outstripped the capabilities of neighboring farmers to feed them. What he didn't reckon on was simple innovation. London would have starved, but the growing population produced more farmers, and better ways to tend crops. People like Terrell so wring their hands in worry about the ways innovation could go wrong that they lose all perspective on the far greater outcome of everything that goes right. Click here to post a public comment on the Trash Talk Bulletin Board.