Speaking of Fallow Fields...

I was reading a piece in Mother Jones (from 2000; they went out of business, right?) about the prison company CCA moving into Ohio's former steel towns and I thought again about what I thought of for Detroit and Michigan: greenhouses. They should start building massive (and masses) of greenhouses and producing..well, produce, in these broken-down towns. Maybe they could sell it to local stores; maybe they could just use it to keep their own populace fed; who knows? But people are always lamenting the quality of our foods and that America is getting away from being an agricultural nation; why not build it back up? Start in the places that are having a hard time now. Make it small and quality, rather than huge and industrial. Industry + food = fail. Time and time again. Bananas, tomatoes - there's a list of foods that aren't like they used to be because they've all become industrialized and internationalized and crappified. I recently read that a CEO's job is "to maximize profit for shareholders." You wanna explain how that coincides with producing healthy, good food? It doesn't. Industrialization is good for mechanized things like computers and cars. Food, not so much.