Another opinion on organic, local and slow

Ran across this rather interesting perspective on western food habits. What's your opinion.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2 ... s_shoppers

This is the perfect example of what I call 'Idiot-thinking.' There are so many who want to push subjects to thier extremes, left or right, that they fail to realize that the answer always lies in the middle.

Read that article again... do you see the vitriol, the venom spewed, by a writer that clearly has a bone to pick. Don't worry, the other half has it's own set of equally passionate arguments. Neither is right here. The truth lies in the middle.

The left want to tell you that bio-engineering is bad (ummm-the Dutch? for past 300 years?!!?) The right want to tell you the we can't feed the world this way (umm-agribusiness in the latter 20th century) They are both wrong and the moderates just need to stop being moderate and start standing up for what is correct- the truth.

Let me illustrate it in a more positive, proactive light:

Of course, we all agree here that free-range is a superior product. That by allowing livestock to roam and live fuller, happier lives is not only a more humane method of ranching, but produces a better tasting meat. The 'happy cow' effect. Yet, free-range consumes a much greater land consumption rate. Land is the only thing they aren't making more of, but people they are. We will hit the proverbial wall, sooner or later.

This is where biogenetics steps in and agribusiness could do some good, if only they had the motive- the want. What's say we bioengineer grass that replenishes itself on a much more rapid scale? The cattle could then be set to the fields at a much quicker rotation- using half of the land they previously required for sustenance.

The left hand and the right hand working together, as opposed to pulling the greater whole of humanity apart...