Bro you are a hundred times more anti-capitalist than any Labour government since Blair.

This is absurd. Co-dependence is the result of cooperation and specialisation. In a village the blacksmith is dependent on the baker because if he angers him, he doesn’t get any bread. No need to bring nationalist paranoia into trade economics.

Yes but local food production doesn’t mean small scale food production.

But yea you can see from your own example how absolutely absurd and inefficient global food production became as a result of global tensions. The only thing that can ensure that food is produced efficiently in great quantities is peace, and free trade from the efficient agro countries.

I’m aware, and I was talking about the protection of small farmers in general.

Protecting small farmers have been the agricultural doctrine all over the world except maybe the states. Certainly in the EU. The whole foundation of the EU problems is the delicate balance that started with the French trying to defend their inefficient farmers from German competition.

No. Enough money was thrown at this problem. And plenty of protection was given to the small farmers for literal centuries, nothing has changed,

I'm very happy that you are attached to your local production, and localised market agriculture CAN and DOES survive alongised industrial agriculture. If that is what the local community wants. But if not, and people rather buy the cheaper food from large farms instead of the expensive ones from the small farms, don't send the government to force people to give money to the small farmers.

Large scale farming has a lot to improve, but I'm sick and tired of this romantic and completely false idea of "oh the small scale farmer", this notion that only citydwelling traditionalists have. By and large what small scale farming has done was to make innovation absent from farming, because they don't have the money to make meaningful innovations, and to lobby for more money from the government to compensate for their inefficient farming methods. Go get a job if you can't compete with large scale farming.

And yes, quality control is important for large farms, we don't want them to give us slop produce. But small farmers were never the champions of growing organic either. They are champions of:

a) growing the same genetically engineered slop as the large farmers

b) at a higher cost because of scale

c) after selling us their produce they also expect us to compensate for their uncompetitiveness by convincing the government to give them our tax money

d) or else: drive their ***ing tracktors into the city and block the roads

I know we are not supposed to even ask these questions.

BUT

I'm all for being non-ordinary and "breaking the mould".

B U T

How come every ***ing time art is "experimental" and trying not to be ordinary, it always ends up being f a g g o t r y??
I mean at this point, what happened to genuine surrealism? What happened to historical romanticism? That is out of the ordinary, dressing up as a greek fishmonger from the first century AD.

Why is it ALWAYS about mixing up sex, and never about mixing up literally anything else under the sun?

Who tf dares to call hearty meals "wifeslop"

coaches don't play

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