Please don't take your Prius to the drive-thru.
"Why should conservationists have a positive interest in…farming?
There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers.
But they can’t be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
They can eat only if land is farmed on their behalf by somebody somewhere in some fashion.
If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat,
they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature. ”
There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers.
But they can’t be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
They can eat only if land is farmed on their behalf by somebody somewhere in some fashion.
If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat,
they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature. ”
Wendell Berry
