Extremists from another era

Gary Jones follows up his earlier post about vegetarian misconceptions. Money quote:

It can be sensibly argued that our agronomic systems can be improved. Instead, uninformed extremists advocate nonsensical changes that support their otherwise unrelated agendas and biases. It can be argued that our systems have been distorted by government interventions - extremists from another era - and that we would benefit from removing those distortions. But it cannot be argued that further distortions based in bad science and worse ideology will help us.