Well, if we talk about effects and consequences. When we rely on others for things that we could be relying on ourselves for, then you face the consequences of the effects of mass production. Which means the consumers of those mass produced products will pay the price.
The way chickens are farmed for mass production, it doesn't surprise me one bit they're all dying from bird flu. These are the type of things I am saying will continue to occur when all these resources reach their limits, when human desire and greed depletes the resources. What will humans do to survive when the well runs dry?
From some of the humans I deal with daily probably become cannibals and turn on each other.
And why would they resort to that, rather than resort to doing what many cultures were already doing by planting, foraging, and hunting for food?
Could it be because humans have become reliant on having things done for them?
I was just making a joke about some of the inbred, unintelligent and drug fucked zombie like dregs I see daily. Ben, some people are lucky to know which part of the drive thru box to speak into to place their order in let alone grow their own food.
Also, animals hunt us over here, not the other way around.
There's a middle ground, though. I don't have to grow cattle or tend chickens. But where I live, it's just as close to a local farm that does than it is to go to Walmart. People are just lazy, that's all (and yes, it's lazy. I get we're basing all this on the small sector of people that work three jobs and are single parents, but even then, it's just as easy to go to your local farm and get supplies than it is to go to Walmart and do the same thing).
I think it's also convenience besides just laziness. It's exactly why we have apps now such as Door Dash and Uber Eats, people have become more "lazy" because of conveniences such as these, It's easier to do this and it's less work to do this. Yet, people get upset when their food doesn't get delivered or it's cold, and I am there like "Well Duh." If you don't want your food stolen or you want your food fresh and hot, then come into the store and order there. But since your too lazy and it's convenient to just have it delivered to you, than that's the risk you take when utilizing the services of Door Dash and Uber Eats, not to mention the fees for delivering your food, which is hilarious when people use it just to order fries.
Local farms in CT probably couldn't handle even 1% of Connecticut's egg demand though. If every person in the state woke up no longer lazy, there's no way local farms could sustain any significant portion of our state's population, and we're a small one.
Cost is probably a factor too. A pound of beef from a farm in Goshen, Litchfield, or Bethlehem will cost you at least double what Walmart would charge you. Thinking about Waterbury, where I live, the closest local farm I could get eggs from is about 15 minutes away, and they have like 3 things on my shopping list, tops. It's far more cost effective, and certainly not lazy, to just just get your eggs at Walmart instead. Once you factor in time and the cost of gas, there's no sense in going out to Bumblefuck just for eggs and whatever few veggies are in season.
There's middle ground for us with our living arrangement, sure. But what middle ground is there for the 1.7M people that live in Manhattan?
They could, if more people went out and worked for that farm. But then as I said, the human demand for Eggs far outweighs the supply that Chickens are capable of giving. This is where the concept of Greed comes into play, how much do humans desire eggs, to the point of doing things to these Chickens just to satisfy the human desire for eggs as food.
The basis of a farmers market is the gathering of many farmers to present their produce and see if anyone wants any. WE grew squash and my father goes out to farmers markets to get food, he met and asked people there who are willing to barter squash for something, even eggs. This made me realize that without money, we would just go back to basic bartering system we Indigenous Peoples of America had in place long before the arrival of the European Colonists and their concept of "Money". This is what I find fascinating is how we didn't necessarily have a money system, our system was based on bartering, and we bartered many things that we couldn't find around our environment. When we traveled, we would also trade for things we could only get there and would only enjoy it there because it would spoil or go bad by the time one would return home. There was no worry or need for the concept of "costs". The only value was whether a person desires that squash or desires something else for whatever product you desire. The more a person desires something, the more they are willing to offer/pay/trade.
Mississippian Indians Travel and TradeThe Mississippian Culture: The Lost American Civilization (Documentary)Original Indigenous Economies | The Renewing Indigenous Economies ProjectThere's just a whole lot wrong with this. If we all have to spend our time hunting for meat and growing our own veggies who's going to be left to manufacture 84" OLED TVs to hang on our walls? People will naturally have to specialize and we'll work out a barter system, so I can produce eggs in exchange for the other things I might need. In other words, exactly what happened 5000 years ago. We've been down this path before.
That's my point and the point of what Daniel says in the song "Nihil Morari". There was always specialists throughout human history. There were those who knew how to pot, how to sew, how to blacksmith, how to heal. But, are there people who know how to build themselves an 84" OLED TV from scratch on their own?
What involves making a Television Set? In order to gather these materials and labor, they had to build factories and get people to work in those manufacturing factories. What occurred was Urbanization and the formation of cities. Cities and towns were formed based on the factory alone, same thing goes for the mining towns. For humans to enjoy TV's, all this had to happen first, and all these things utilize resources from the Earth that people do go out and gather for the factories. Depleting land from trees that give us our oxygen, poisoning the water that's necessary for life, and causing layers in the atmosphere to dwindle such as the Ozone Layer.
I am also not saying we need to go back to the "Stone Age". I am saying, we need to utilize methods of production that won't deplete the Earth of it's resources. In other words, how long does it take Earth to replenish itself of these resources before humans dry the well.
LOOK WHAT YOU STARTED BEN!!
I blame the Eggs....
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