Commercial farming is also "subsistence" if you don't have enough savings. If your crop is inedible you still have to buy food from somewhere with something ..
It kinda just sounds like you're content with family farms not existing, because all of your points fail to address the economic realities for these farms.
Well a lot of conventional farms that are hyperoptimized barely make enough money to get by. It is quite weird how we can't maintain something as basic as food security with a market based economy.
There are many reasons, but all the others become moot when you take into account that a return to traditional agriculture is economically impossible. It survives as a niche product, but it can't remotely compete on scale and price.
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