My apologies if I came off sounding holier-than-thou. Not even close to my intention.

My concern with your article isn't with the notion that big farms are better for farm workers in particular, migrant or not. It's with the notion that you pretty much therefore conclude that it follows, then, that big farms are better in general. That to me isn't right thinking.

It's not that we should probably, oh, I don't know, try to have a discussion about whether or not we should be growing fruits and vegetables or if we should be growing Cocoa Puffs. It's that we're coming upon an age, not to sound too conspiratorial, where we're not going to have a choice as to whether we change, fundamentally, how we feed ourselves.

So, yes. I'll say it: When it comes to food production, we need to roll the clock back 40 or 50 years.

Dare we humble ourselves and look at what Brazil is/has been doing, and emulate them? (Though even that intuitive way of farming -- cover crops, grass fed livestock, rotation -- is starting to lose traction on account of its alleged, though misperceived, lack of efficiency.)