I would like all my land to be entirely house, please. It's not freedom unless I'm squashed in enough that I can reach out my window and touch my neighbour's balls.

Edit: Jesus Christ guys, I didn't know we were so pro-McMansion. Look at how much space these houses are wasting that could go into native green space (not lawns, but the actual nature shit we need to not go insane) or community areas. I'm not against high-density living, I'm against waste, and environmental homogeny

  • Fleewithme [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    When you grow your own food you know exactly what went into it.

    The "larger fields" are called factory farms. Sure they're more efficient, but at terrible cost. They wash the fields with toxic pesticides and genocide every living thing that's not the desired plant.

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Modern industrial agriculture has lots of serious issues that needs to be addressed but one shouldn't romanticise traditional small-scale farming. It required hard back-breaking labour from the majority of the population just to produce enough to allow people to have a highly restricted and uniform diet. There is a reason famines were so common back when everything was done by hand with no artificial fertilizers etc.

      If we want to feed a growing global population the goal is to find sustainable ways of doing industrial farming.

      • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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        3 years ago

        It required hard back-breaking labour from the majority of the population just to produce enough to allow people to have a highly restricted and uniform diet.

        Nasty, brutish, and short, amirite?

      • Fleewithme [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        We're not talking about a return to feudalism, we're talking about growing food in front yards. Which you called "dumb".