"So what will it take for sustainable food production to spread? It's clear that scaling up must begin with a sort of scaling down — a distributed system of many local or regional food producers as opposed to just a few massive ones. Since 1935, consolidation and industrialization have seen the number of U.S. farms decline from 6.8 million to fewer than 2 million."
This is an interesting comment in the article. The biggest challenge of creating a sustainable food supply is reversing what large corporations have done.............good luck with that.
Also, it says that global meat consumption is set to increase 25% by 2015 because poor countries are going to start eating more meat......I highly doubt it. That would be a pretty remarkable economic turn-around for poor nations in such a short period of time.
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