Well done! Some economic geographers (Dick Walker comes to mind) are fond of challenging this fetishization of scale by saying that there is no difference between small and large farms (under capitalism). Which gets liberals upset pretty quickly, haha, but is also its own kind of polemic...Of course, DW has a much more sophisticated understanding of agricultural dynamics than this, but it seems that is the rhetorical strategy he finds most useful. Anyway, this piece does a great job of pointing to the problematic moral grounds that Berry and the current liberal food movement rely on - nice work! Also, I haven't read much of Berry's writing in a while but have heard folks praise his evolution in thought...have you noticed any positive changes there?
Awesome! I agree with you. Though Benson and Butz appear prominently in work, I just sidestepped the whole quote affair because I never saw the quote in the primary sources and because I had plenty other juicy quotes to use.
Well done! Some economic geographers (Dick Walker comes to mind) are fond of challenging this fetishization of scale by saying that there is no difference between small and large farms (under capitalism). Which gets liberals upset pretty quickly, haha, but is also its own kind of polemic...Of course, DW has a much more sophisticated understanding of agricultural dynamics than this, but it seems that is the rhetorical strategy he finds most useful. Anyway, this piece does a great job of pointing to the problematic moral grounds that Berry and the current liberal food movement rely on - nice work! Also, I haven't read much of Berry's writing in a while but have heard folks praise his evolution in thought...have you noticed any positive changes there?
Awesome! I agree with you. Though Benson and Butz appear prominently in work, I just sidestepped the whole quote affair because I never saw the quote in the primary sources and because I had plenty other juicy quotes to use.