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It is very therapeutic to garden, though. (lemmy.today)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Subsidizing home farming isn't really possible with our current society, and not subsidizing industrial farming could be disastrous and lead to famine. The subsidies guarantee that food options will be available at all times.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

New Zealand stopped subsidizing farmers, and survives. So we have at least one data point showing that it is possible.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

New Zealand only grows meat and most of it goes to export. Growing veggies is not effective in general.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

It does say "yield and cost effectiveness" in the picture, so I'm not emphasizing on availability, but discussing just that.