Thread by @eatcookwrite

@SylvanaquaFarms @songberryfarm @SarahTaber_bww @4mcc @sarah_k_mock I'm not loathe to admit that at all. I'm frustrated that it takes so much prodding to my fellow reformers to stop yammering on about proximate bullshit that is easily falsified and move upstream the center of the system where the levers actually are.

@SylvanaquaFarms @songberryfarm @SarahTaber_bww @4mcc @sarah_k_mock And it gets tiresome to have the fact that I don't agree with the standard-issue critique of the status quo means that people project onto me that I'm defending the status.

@SylvanaquaFarms @songberryfarm @SarahTaber_bww @4mcc @sarah_k_mock I think the shallowness of the food movement's reform agenda is a de facto defense of the status. I don't think people are actually grasping the nettle.

@SylvanaquaFarms @songberryfarm @SarahTaber_bww @4mcc @sarah_k_mock When you keep pushing people to peel back the onion on their own model and assumption, you generally arrive at the problem being Combines + Capitalism.

Which is fine, but it also means that all that yammering on about subsidies was a bullshit distraction.

@SylvanaquaFarms @songberryfarm @SarahTaber_bww @4mcc @sarah_k_mock But it actually goes deeper than that. What people really are objecting to is the project of feeding cities. Because nearly every critique of current industrial agriculture applies to the agriculture that developed in Mesopotamia with the formation of city-states 2500 years ago.

@SylvanaquaFarms @songberryfarm @SarahTaber_bww @4mcc @sarah_k_mock You peel back the onion and the objection isn't really to crony-capitalist subsidies, it's to Combines + Capitalism. Peel back the onion further and it's really an objection to the realities of feeding cities instead of small clusters of peasants.