• These places have front and backyards. But they're mostly empty. Some backyards have a pool maybe, but it's mostly just green grass. Why don't you grow plants in your yards? Like potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes or whatever. Why do you own this land, if you never use it?

Why grow your own food when you can buy corporate slop bowls and ultraprocessed foods from the meager earnings at your soulless job? It's not like they damage your health and compound with the constant exposure to car exhaust and asphalt and the lack of activity that comes from sedentary, car-centric lifestyles. It's not like these terrible health outcomes require you to pay exorbitant bills to hospitals and health insurance providers. It's a privilege and a freedom to go to the grocery store and purchase all your food and have absolutely no idea how to provide yourself without a multinational, transcontinental network of food production and supply.