Family Farming

[unspeakablehorror]

Saw this article and I thought it was an interesting read:
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/06/america-loves-the-idea-of-family-farms-thats-unfortunate.html

I only did a quick read-through, but the main argument of the article, which is that collective farming using community and employee-owned farms is more effective and sustainable than the family farm model is one I found convincing. There's at least one implication I suspect may not be accurate, but it's unrelated to the main idea and that's pretty common with anything of length I read.

I think this model of community and employee-owned farms is what should replace our current factory farm model, which is both environmentally unsustainable and responsible for enormous human suffering.  I also agree that community or employee-owned farms seems to be a better option than family farms.

Comments

[tobermoriansass]

I'd be interested in hearing what you think the wrong implication is!

I'm always a bit cautious around these things that centre community (though I did talk about it) because I find they come perilously close to being community fetishism (ha ha), without recognizing all the ways in which communities can be oppressive and violent, or the ways in which they perpetuate violence through their fixation with "boundedness"and the boundaries & contours of the community as a cohesive, defined whole.