No we are not overpopulated. The main issue is having a select few MASSIVE farms feed a whole country. As someone from texas, I shouldn't rely on california and mexico for produce. I shouldn't rely on Illinois or wherever the pork "farms" are. I don't need you driving 500+ miles to deliver food to me from another state. The inefficiency of agriculture is the locations. By the time the produce gets here it's lost half if not more of it nutritional value due to poor handling and storing. Farms are more like meat factories more than actual farms nowadays.
Yes, and that all seems compounded by these horribly anti-competitive IP laws which are allowing companies like Monsanto to own hybrid species of crop, which cross-contaminating other cultivars means their IP can spread like fucking plant genetics. That's insanity at another level. I come from a farming region in the mid-west, and you can talk to just about any small-time farmer and hear how ubiquitously difficult it is becoming to farm at that level nowadays. It's the same with the dairy guys.
It truly is a shame. I can just hope for enough land for a personal farm for my future family really.
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