Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Off the farm

In Environmental Ethics today Wendell notes the rapid historical decline of farmers in the U.S., whose numbers in the last half of the 20th century dropped by more than half. Fewer and fewer of us have direct personal memories of farm life. That's dreadful, if living close to the land that feeds the nation and the world, and thus learning to know and love it, are conditions of a healthy food ecology and sound environmental sensibility... (continues)


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