It’s a simple fact that we can’t support 330 million Americans and eight billion people worldwide without modern food production methods. It’s also factual that highly efficient, hi-tech farming, enabling us to produce more food on less land, is a major reason why there’s more forested area in America today than a century ago. Following from this is that millions will starve, and struggling for survival will ravage the environment in the process, if we scuttle these modern food-production methods. Tragically, this scuttling is well underway, too — and the latest nation to mount the bandwagon to skin and bones is Ireland.
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