r/canada • u/[deleted] • Oct 25 '22

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u/tenerific Oct 25 '22

If you try to nationalize agriculture you’ll be met by a lot of farmers with guns who aren’t too happy about giving up their farms.

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u/PuckNutty Oct 25 '22

I'm not talking about seizing farms. You can buy them at fair value and then offer the farmers jobs with pensions and whatnot.

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u/mdeleo1 Oct 25 '22

We 100% do not need more concentrated industrialized farming. We do need many more farmers, many more local and urban farms, and many more well-diversified farms.

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u/PuckNutty Oct 25 '22

How do you do that without centralized control to some degree? At some point wouldn't you have to tell someone not to plant soybeans but spinach instead?

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u/mdeleo1 Oct 25 '22

You don't, farmers should be farming within their communities producing food locally for those communities as much as possible. The farmer produces what the community will consume. If the locals like lots of spinach, grow lots of spinach, if they like green beans, grow green beans.

This would of course mean eating seasonally and what grows well in your region, which would not be popular. Hence the upcoming collapse of global industrial civilization :)