A thoughtful reader left a provocative (no, not that kind, the thought kind) comment on a post of mine last summer, asking some interesting questions about industrial agriculture: On a more serious note, do you think the industrial food system is bad in-and-of-itself, or in the ways it currently operates? Could the system be changed? More importantly, could we (as in all almost 7 billion of us) survive without the industrial food system? How do we address the issue of food distribution (and why aren’t we doing a better job of it now)? I’m not sure if there are solid answers to these questions. As it is, I’m just kind of thinking out loud.

Hope everyone is having a good “Monday” back after the Memorial Day holiday. Yesterday I hassled a friend about heading home to be productive. After all, the only activities allowed on Memorial Day are relaxing, eating and doing a ton of yard work. Wait, what? Yah, I had to add that to the list because that is what our Monday was about.