Following you now. This is an issue close to my heart.

While I tend to focus on Cottage Industry as the solution and want to see more people able to support wholesome lives by creating higher quality foods and goods than can be bought in most stores, it's easy to get caught up in focusing on "my" solution. I believe there are many visions of ideal life and that we need to learn to live together in diversity. It can be so easy to get into the mindset that any obstacle my favorite "solution" is inherently bad. It would be easy for me to demonize big box stores or industrial agriculture etc, (and I often have) when a more enlightened view would see all things as having a place in our future. That means all people and all styles of life.

I appreciate your view and discussion and hope my comment was remotely on topic. :)