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The industrialization of agriculture has made clear inroads on the problem of world hunger and has markedly increased the quality of food from the time when all
by xtian 11y ago
The industrialization of agriculture has made clear inroads on the problem of world hunger and has markedly increased the quality of food from the time when all farming was manual labor.
- ForHackernews 11y agoSarcasm isn't your strong suit, is it?
- xtian 11y agoActually, it might not be yours; neither of those statements are true. Investigate how much the U.S. government spends on farming subsidies per year and then consider the fact that nutritious food which isn't loaded with pesticides, hormones, radiation, etc is currently considered a luxury good.
- splawn 11y agoI like how loaded the term "loaded" is in this statement. /s
- xtian 11y agoHappy to replace it with a different word if you'd like.
- viewer5 11y agoRadiation?
- forrestthewoods 11y agoCrop insurance is one of the greatest advances in human history. I'm not even being sarcastic. It turns out subsistence farming and dying of starvation was pretty shitty.
- xtian 11y agoOh ok, so that's what the subsidies are preventing.
- joosters 11y agoAre you sure? A survey in 1977 showed that just 6% of farmers bought or sold crop futures (i.e. insuring a price for their goods). And apparently 3 in 4 of these farmers were buying futures (i.e. speculating on crop prices) rather than selling them.
- zardo 11y agoThat doesn't mean that no one loses out in the process.