Matt Taibbi is a journalist and author. He writes and publishes TK News at taibbi.substack.com and hosts the “America This Week podcast with Walter Kirn.” He’s also been the lead reporter on the Twitter Files, which come out on Twitter at @mtaibbi. www.taibbi.substack.com
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Joe you are so fucking funny, it’s good to hear
What the world needs now is love sweet love, good, bad and ugly, we all need it, yes we do
1:19:00 ppl that know how farming works, know regenerative works. The issue is for a lot of ppl, the industrial farming method is the only viable way. Many farms are broken up to a degree either by highways, or by region, so your 200 acres of soybeans isn't near any cows, or you can't split the land for proper rotation, or the county doesn't allow transport of cattle except to be sold, or the surrounding farms are now HOAs and it's too expensive to operate, or the local government passes laws that harass farmers…all of these things happen to varying degrees. Me and my dad (we are not farmers) were talking about this, and just two seasons of cattle grazing is enough to restore the topsoil for a lot of different crops, but many of those sustainable crops are cheaper in other countries, so it's often not worth growing them.
If the pandemic taught us anything, it's that we can never afford to disrupt farming. When there wasn't as much of a demand because the restaurants weren't buying, that meant the farmers weren't selling, so they were losing their shirts growing crops they couldn't sell, while trying to anticipate the next crop on the schedule…