In these parts, "sustainability" has been a buzzword for ten or fifteen years. One aspect of sustainability is densification - packing more people into land. The more you do that, the fewer people are going to do their own hunting or baking. Densification makes industrial agriculture and massed produced goods absolutely necessary. (I have always felt the sustainability crowd holds conflicting beliefs, but that is perhaps a topic for onother thread.)

DWFII - wrt to hunting your own meat, I have some confessions. If I had to choose one beverage for the rest of my life it would be milk. The fresher the better. But the one day I had a chance to drink milk straight from the bucket, I just couldn't do it. And I am a renowned meat-eater, as long as the meat comes from a butcher or in a plastic wrapper. But when my brother the hunter offers me a fine cut of venison, I cannot stomach it. And then there were the berries that I threw away last week because I found worms in them.

I like mass-produced, impersonal, genetically modified, Monsanto factory food. I shouldn't, but I do.