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we should have a decentralized agriculture system based on local farms and communities, then we wouldn't have this problem.

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animals and agriculture span the entire country.

"Agriculture" does not always equate to fruits and vegetables for humans. Corn and soy for export is agriculture. So is lettuce and tomatoes for local consumption. The point is we need locally grown food for local consumption.

I live in a northern US state that is capable of growing loads of produce in the summer, yet in the summer grocery stores sell veggies and fruit grown in California, Mexico and Florida. Stores sell garlic from China when we can grow great garlic right here.

*owned mostly by ~3 companies. if not owned, then controlled via their non-competitive contracts they have with the very small number of farmers who span the entire country.

Yes, essentially, we need to get rid of corporate communism as it destroyed every industry it touched. Farming is now centralised and controled by a handful of corporate politburos, software, media, everything else. So called capitalism is dead, this is not capitalism we are experiencing. Otherwise you'd have many small farms and businesses in general that freely move capital and products around.

In capitalism, capital de tend to concentrate.

At extreme ends capitalism manifests itself like communism: oversight, concentration of power and capital in the hands of few, and so on. Proper capitalism means that capital flows freeley around all layers of society. In corporate communism and communist socialism capital clogs. Doesn't flow naturaly, it's slowed down, stored, accessible to and managed by those few.

Looks to me like the same rethoric of those that speak the virtues of true communism. I heard the song many times already.

yes, we should go to a decentralized system where the community or workers own the farm.

Yes, we used to call them: "small business" or "family owned business" or "family owned farm". A distant concept these days. Sometimes these would have their interests represented by the people they elect in local councils or governments, as opposed to these forms of governance taking orders directly from national central planning bureous, known as boards, by means of lobbying.

"Decentralized farming" is such an HN thing to say.

I get it and fully agree, but man, that got a good laugh out of me, haha.

i was trying to appeal to a certain audience with the "decentralized" word. tech ppl love that word, especially when describing any sort of enterprise system. know ur audience!

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