While I found the article more interesting for what he was doing than why he was doing it, I tend to look on the latter as another example of a potential for broadening a coalition---unless one thinks that his views on the ills of industrial farming and the virtues of his methods are outweighed by his faith and his libertarianism. My instinct is to ally with what is good while attempting to subvert what is problematic.  

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."