No doubt much to the annoyance of the real farming types, Africa is starting to adopt American industrial farming practices. Thankfully, this is going to make Africa and its residents vastly richer. Tyson (that enemy of everything the organic and slow-food movements hold dear) is working and investing to bring the U.S. system of broiler chicken production to the world’s poorest continent, thereby making it less poor.

Yes, it’s that same system that half of America complains about. Eggs are hatched in one place, sent off to be raised by contract farmers in another (in massive barns, crammed in to boot), and then slaughtered on mass production lines to be sold in their hundreds of thousands and millions. This really is the industrialization of farming and precisely the sort of thing that those who shop at Whole Foods deplore.