Joel Salatin is a living legend, an original lunatic farmer. While I myself am more concerned with feeding all of humanity in a theoretically near complete manner, practically speaking, as part of the application of my planning profession. And that different task comes with compromises. In the very least, in the short and medium terms of time. Animal protein focused permaculture is by far and away the best option for our planet, our selves, and all the life that are born to garden. But there are costs born upon our soil by our past and our presents that preclude this perfection. To say little of the issue of urbanism, and the nature of towering cities scraping against the heavens, bringing with them their hubris and peculiarities. A solution to the lack of land, both for the physical shortage of it, but more dangerously within the realms of toxic land, is aquaculture, hydroponics, and aeroponics. These cyberpunk machines are of the barest acceptability, yet they are still superior to our today's lower common productions of lower bio-available foods. That which we ourselves can turn into saturated fats in our own internal omnivorous refineries. Those sugars we can burn thanks to our primate roots. And fats we can pull by near magic out of that which has no interest in playing nicely with our much younger game of life and death. Where I was shook by Salatin was his commentary on the needs for terrestrial plants to live within a living ground. I think this is true. Just as it is true of humans to require living soil to bolster the quality of their life. Just as it is self-evidently beneficial that all things should be living in harmony. Particularly a harmony balanced by our own brilliant responsibility, born as this all is by Gods grace. But, it just isn't practical. Not yet it isn't. So the choice isn't between the best and the worst. It's a set of compromises. [[Locally Real Food]] requires a diverse set of inputs and outputs cycling dynamically. Holistic driven permaculture in tune with our Adam like duty to build Eden is a beautiful dream and an admirable first focus wherever possible. But where the land is sparse, poisoned, or tyrannized, we should seek what is best for that environment practically, rather than what is best for it empirically. We must pick our battles. We should rather eat and feed our animals plants grown within enhanced sterility and reduced complexity, than grow plants more correctly which are grown in or blanketed with poisons. Yes, the plant, will contain less life. Less energy. Less complexity. And it will make the cycle which we are spinning within more fragmented and worn away with strings of itself wandering away and causing losses we can't yet consider. But that is the fate of the time we are talking about. Our here and now. We should let no tool go unused. Just as we should let no nonsense hide. It will be decades, or centuries, at a minimum, before we can grow and/or logistically transport real food sufficiently to all. We must not strive for perfection, today. We must strive for our best option today, so we may move ever forward towards the unreachable perfection, some time in the future. Now, here's hoping that we can develop sufficiently complex nutrients for our animals and ourselves while growing solar punk crops with which to accomplish it.