Given that such speculation produces exactly the result that we desire, more foodfor people to eat, why do these people insist that we must have less of what saves lives?
Although people's desirefor abundant, cheap food is the big reason for intensive modern farming, another is the taste for variety that has come from affluence and from fast, cheaper transport.
Even as I consider taking up hunting out of a desire to procure my own food, not for sport or security I am struck by the absurdity of owning a semi-automatic weapon.