Yes my friend. Perfect.
If the text above mentioned that would have been OK. But it's bs.
Just one more thing: not everyone can eat locally because most people are poor and even if everyone was rich... good bio food is one-expensive, two-insufficient.
There is not enough good land on Earth for all people to eat good food. Good food is for growers and people with money. Poor people eat bad food from supermarkets.
And almost everyone is poor.
Saif sounds like one speaking from the 1% World, where they think all cows roam free in the Alps.
Not mentioning the "meat only" cause enviroment bs
This is incorrect. There yes more land that can be grazed by various edible animals than can be practically farmed. And, as the animals graze, they can help increase arable land. It's a positive feedback cycle if done with some thought and an occasional push in the right direction.
I'm not trying to be mean but have a look again at the world map, see how much water, desert, forests, mountains and agricultural land there is.
We can cut all the forests but that's not a solution, in Amazon is not going great.
All the agricultural land in the world belongs to someone. If they're not all growing happy cows probably there's a reason for that.
I have, a little. And not every piece of land can support cows. But goats and sheep? Delicious, useful, and transformative. Yes, Bill Gates is buying a crapton of farmland in the US to push production to his cancer foods. Yes, the Amazon is under pressure. But, if you can get outside of the cities, you can probably live a much better, healthier life than you could otherwise. No, not everyone can do that, but, it's a goal and more people can reach it than they might realize.
I get you, sounds wonderful, but we are 8 billion. We can hardly feed people on 3rd world like it is now. Billions have almost nothing to eat. And we can't go and addopt communism or killing billions.
There's not enough land available for everyone to eat happy cows. Most people will only eat sad cows for 100 years. Then lab meat.
We currently produce too much food. The issue is geopolitical nonsense getting in the way of distribution. (We can agree that Fiat is the cause of most of that, yes?) even at 10 billion (the approximate global maximum based on population tendencies and projections I've seen, +/- half a billion), we can produce enough decent food for people to not starve on the land we already use for farming, though, I propose we move to a decentralized, distributed food system, which will prove more robust, diverse, flexible and healthier than industrial monocropping which is poisoning the earth, the air, the water, and us.
Saif uses lots anecdotes to exemplify the failures of fiat. I agree, Saif is writing from an extremely biased perspective. It is bullshit. However, your passion about the subject inspired me to offer my thoughts.
In the past many poor people were farmers. I think this was due to the fact that one could build living capital while they worked to feed themselves. I'm willing to bet that more often than not this food was high quality. Fiat incentives and subsidies have eroded the value of living capital, removing the ability for poor people to live subsistence lifestyles by farming.
I think that by using permaculture more high quality calories can be grown per acre than are currently being produced. Look to the work of Mark Shepard and Peter Allen for more thorough information on how this is possible.
As fiat crumbles and bitcoin rises, subsistence lifestyles of farming producing more calories per acre than ever before will become much more prevalent than is the case today in my opinion. High quality food will be available locally, more people will be growing their own food again too.
My food forest plus rabbit colony cannabis garden uses about 1/10 acre. This system is still establishing and is far from peak production, but it still produces hundreds of pounds of food per year, about 150lbs of it is rabbit meat. Anyone with some sort of lawn can produce a significant supplement to their diet, I am confident in that.
