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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (23 children)

Small-scale, local farming is where it's at. Growing a bucket of potatoes on a balcony or helping out at a community garden are small but achievable steps to bring the food closer to us. In addition to sustainability, it promotes knowledge of how to produce our own food and reduces dependence on large-scale monoculture farming.

It's nice to walk a few paces and pick up an ingredient for dinner with the satisfaction that you nurtured it. But mainly, I just don't feel like going to the grocery store as much lol.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Industrial production of food is not the problem. Capitalism is.

I mean, good for you if you want to play in a garden with plants, but I don't want to do that. And this kind of production is not enough to feed everyone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nobody is claiming an issue with large-scale food production, or that small, local gardens will feed everyone. Also, nobody is telling you what to do.

Rather, that there are benefits to growing even a little bit of your own food should you choose to do so. There's no need to talk down and I hope you're alright, because that's a lotta strawmen.

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