There’s a lot of romanticizing of agricultural work, and while some people might like “back to the land”-style communal agrarian societies, there’s also plenty of people who dont want to be farmers just for the aesthetic.
I’m happy to live in a society with a whole lot of non-farming jobs (even if personally, I really wish I had the land and time to hobby farm).
Agriculture is specifically the cultivation of acres; i.e. fields of crops.
It’s an inefficient and ecologically devestating form of food production compared to food forests and gardening. It results in structural nutritional deficiencies (e.g. half the western world being overweight because staple crops are short on particular minerals and vitamins unless you eat way too many calories) and the occasional massive famines.
The one upside it has - labor efficiency - is predicated on poisoning the earth. Rather than figure out what plants need they flush the earth with chemicals and poisons and pump aquifers dry, throwing enough stuff at the problem that they don’t need people as much.
@PugJesus what exactly about cultivating the land do you not approve of? that’s all agrarian means
There’s a lot of romanticizing of agricultural work, and while some people might like “back to the land”-style communal agrarian societies, there’s also plenty of people who dont want to be farmers just for the aesthetic.
I’m happy to live in a society with a whole lot of non-farming jobs (even if personally, I really wish I had the land and time to hobby farm).
Agriculture is specifically the cultivation of acres; i.e. fields of crops.
It’s an inefficient and ecologically devestating form of food production compared to food forests and gardening. It results in structural nutritional deficiencies (e.g. half the western world being overweight because staple crops are short on particular minerals and vitamins unless you eat way too many calories) and the occasional massive famines.
The one upside it has - labor efficiency - is predicated on poisoning the earth. Rather than figure out what plants need they flush the earth with chemicals and poisons and pump aquifers dry, throwing enough stuff at the problem that they don’t need people as much.
… none of that is correct.