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> Growing by hand for calories is a negative return activity. Industrial agriculture, with the help of chemical fertilizers, has only been a thing since the ea
by freeflight 5y ago
> Growing by hand for calories is a negative return activity.
Industrial agriculture, with the help of chemical fertilizers, has only been a thing since the early 19th century.
I find it hard to believe that agriculture, in all the centuries before that, was negative in return. How did sedentary humans feed themselves for these thousands of years before that if not with manual agriculture?
- Atriptothesea 5y ago//wiki/Claviceps_purpurea //wiki/Ignis_sacer hope this may help... (-:
- Turing_Machine 5y agoI don't think it's negative, but it's quite marginal. As noted above, in most traditional civilizations, upwards of 90% of the population was engaged just in growing food, generally as unfree labor. The remaining 10% were priests, nobles, and soldiers to keep the peasants in line and working hard. Such societies typically also had famines every few years. We don't have famines in developed countries any more.
- Scoundreller 5y agoThey also supplemented their growing with animals.