When I read things like this, I simply don’t know what to think.

Honestly, is there anything said about the dangers of agribusiness that could not have been said about the sewing machine by the tailors?

Cheap reliable produce is bad.  Inefficient businesses should all be allowed to perpetuate themselves forever at the price of higher cost to consumers?

Society is never supposed to change?  If we once had a boatload of family farms then life must stay that way forever?

Why.  Life changes all the time.  People adapt.

These adaptations sometimes have their own new risks.  But if the risks were great enough then the change would never occur or it would be only temporary.  Occasional spinach shortages are not enought to make people give us relatively reliable and cheap sources of food.  Thus the moralizing in the article.

Nothing stays the same.  People live as best they no how.  Don’t make them feel guilty for not preserving the past economic arrangements.