Delirio sin límites

Insisto, ¿qué significa ser de izquierda en la actualidad, más allá de asumir como propia toda iniciativa que vaya en contra de la modernidad? No sé si “progresismo” es 100% un sinónimo de izquierdismo, pero no deja de ser una ironía más grande que una casa que esa ideología tenga como uno de sus objetivos principales la oposición furiosa a todo lo que implique progreso.

No se pierdan esta muy interesante columna sobre uno de los temas tan de moda en ciertos sectores progresistas/izquierdistas, los ataques a la producción de alimentos a nivel industrial.

No es más que otra de las tantas manifestaciones del ludismo que los caracteriza. La izquierda, siempre tan sensible, aparentemente propone volver a la producción de subsistencia. Cómo se nota que nunca se garcaron de hambre:

I had to laugh at a recent Nicholas Kristof column in the New York Times, in which he had traveled back to his family's farm in Oregon and was remembering how it was when he was a boy. But that idyllic time is lost, all lost, and Kristof concluded that farms have lost their soul. Or at least "industrial" farms operate at a soul deficit. I don't know exactly what Kristof meant by the loss of soul. Reading what others write about agriculture, I sometimes think that what others see as "soul," we farmers remember as grinding poverty and isolation. Does the fact that I follow the grain markets on my iPhone imply a loss of soul? If so, then this "soul" business is all cabbage, and the hell with it.

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If the movie “Food, Inc.” can be said to have a theme, it is that corn is too cheap. Cheap corn has led to industrial uses, cheap fast food, and, horror of horrors, corn fed to cows. This year's harvest is bad news for documentary makers, because we're bringing in a tremendous crop. Corn prices are at two-year lows. Author of Fast Food Nation Eric Schlosser's pain is palpable, but a big harvest should be a cause for celebration for everyone else. Farmers make the news when weather causes low yields and high prices, but plentiful and reasonably priced food is such a given that nobody but we farmers celebrates a great crop like this one. The rest of America should celebrate, and be grateful for the abundance that agriculture provides.

(Visto en The Corner)