It wasn’t simply that the operation is out of scale with the Iowa landscape. It is out of scale with any landscape, except perhaps the industrial districts of Los Angeles County. What shocked me most was the thought that this is where the logic of industrial farming gets us. Instead of people on the land, committed to the welfare of the agricultural enterprise and the resources that make it possible, there was this horror — a place where millions of chickens are crowded in tiny cages and hundreds of laborers work in dire conditions.
Out of scale with reality. Food prices are insanely low, which is cool if you're on the edge financially or some drone they're feeding... if you're paying a dollar a dozen for eggs though you are begging to be poisoned. Take control of what you can, garden, backyard flocks... let's be humans living in our landscape.
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If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.
- Louis D. Brandeis
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