1. I mostly agree on that. But since the blog post was already long and winding, I didn't want to burden it by going into each and every exact details of impact / consequences of different forms of food production. I thought about it on more general philosophical level, trying to show why I don't consider 'moral principles' very interesting, and how I prefer considering practical consequences. Now, of course, it would make a series of posts to go through the major consequences, ranging from economical to social and ecological ones.

2. When I said "Locally grown is often better than long transportations" I didn't mean it as any kind of universal truth. It was just an example of my own rule of thumb - so here 'locally' means literally that; places Erkka has visited, farms he knows the people and how they treat the soil and animals and workers. People living in different areas have to develop their own local rules of thumb.

Modern slavery is a big, complex, interesting and important topic. Curiously enough, at the moment I'm reading about the history of iron-age / medieval slavery in Finland. A historical examination always opens up interesting perspectives on the contemporary society, too...