And meat politics are amazingly complex. What we read/hear in the media is typically a simple-minded, singled-sided take on what are, in reality, nearly Kafkaesque dramas among and between competing players.

Presumably you get my point. At the heart of the food on YOUR table --- organic, raw, processed, whatever --- lies a bewildering array of costs.

Yes, in our affluent society, there’s room aplenty for the niche agriculture favored by Team Small. But as a foundation for agriculture as a whole, history shows that it cannot succeed.

A thirty-second shot. We see a table covered with plates of various kinds of food. Hands come in and out of view, as the people attached to those hands scoop dip, pick up a carrot, cut a potato, whatever.