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[IrateCitizen]

You do realize that here in the US, where we use GM crops and corporate farming, our food prices are lower than most of the rest of the world?

Are you including in those costs the colossal subsidies that are lavished on these same corporate farms? Are you also factoring in how industrial farming methods are heavily dependent on chemicals (which eventually enter the water supply) and ravage the topsoil? Or are you basing this cost solely on what we pay at the grocery checkout?

Your statement is the same as saying that "gasoline is cheap in the US" without taking into account the cost of government subsidy, pollution and military force required to maintain control over resources.

I know, I know -- I'm just being "irrational" again.

Africa and subsistance farming. Here we are talking about people who are doing nothing but SF. SF supports the family, and prehaps helps with a few other people. It does not feed large villages let alone cities the size of New York.

Subsistence farming is an overly romanticized notion. But why must the choice be between subsistence farming and agribusiness? What ever happened to the idea of small-to-medium sized farms where production was increased but the farmer also had a vested interest in ecological conservation?

Nah. Nothing to see here, move along.

Truths and facts help everyone. Why do you feel the need to be an ignorant prick when you present them instead of simply carrying on a civil discourse?

Hello pot, meet kettle. I find this striking coming from you, considering your haste to refer to me as "irrational" below without even bothering to address my arguments, but rather acting as if they were "beneath your intellect".

I think you'd better check out that mote in your own eye before pointing out the speck in someone else's. But hey, that's just my opinion.