salchristina:

thepeacockangel:

notaprettymyth:

thepeacockangel:

You are 100% a servant of capitalism.  Your lifestyle is as “unethical” as any other because it is founded on the exploitation of labor, your “fair trade” ain’t that fair, your organic ain’t that green, your urban garden is probably poisoning you, and your pseudo ethical lifestyle isn’t accessible to us anyway, and if you’re telling us that that’s what resisting capitalism looks like, you’re doing capitalism a big damn favor.

this. although i fully support direct trade, sustainable food systems, and urban gardening.

I’m in favor of the abolishment of trade (fuck exchange based economies), scientifically sustainable food systems (what people who are into urban gardening consider sustainable nearly never is) and pragmatic steps to improve the availability of produce and not meaningless gestures which is what  urban gardening ultimately is

I feel like this is a hard trap to get out of because there’s no significant revolutionary cultures visible to most of America right now, so even a lot of working-class people wind up turning to the newage shit as the alternative to religious conservatism / nationalist militarism or whatever. And on a side note, the yield-gaps are maybe not so significant, if we consider that we’re currently producing way more food than human beings need? Like we could afford 9% or 20% less crop production if up to 50% of produce didn’t wind up being left to rot?

Also working the organic-farm scene last year was def a weird mix of rural people doing really vital transformative work in depressed post-mining areas, and awful liberal shitpolitics to the tune of “you shouldn’t be allowed to buy junk food with food stamps.” (I go out of my way to buy sno-balls with EBT at least once a month now.)

I mean I think that increasing crop yield per acre is really important to reduce problems of deforestation and desertification and allow soil more rest time (we also really need to work on not destroying fungal networks with plowing).  I don’t really think there’s any reason or excuse for using inefficient agricultural methods when they don’t make the product any better.

Like synthetic pesticides are better, safer, better for the environment.  Synthetic fertilizer is just as safe and infinitely sustainable unlike organic fertilizer. (source)

Devoting more land than necessary to agriculture is harmful to the enviornment and contributes to habitat loss, and I think distributing the amount of food we do produce and not losing productivity is quite important. (source)