Indeed, there are plenty of homesteaders out there but the honest ones will tell you in is incredibly hard if not impossible to be 100% self sufficient. The people that push that extreme really do harm vs. good. Families can and should grow some of their own food even if it just for education. Just a simple garden is rewarding.

Its like the doomsday preppers. They are so absurd they give cover to the masses that can't make it for a few days without going to the store.