This comment made me chuckle and I think is an excellent illustration. There's a lot of people in these threads that don't understand how farming works and the

This comment made me chuckle and I think is an excellent illustration. There's a lot of people in these threads that don't understand how farming works and the sheer scale of the problem with growing plant matter for food and industry. There are people seriously encouraging manual farming as a solution to the worlds food/pest issues. It boggles my mind--have these people have hand worked a field? Even maintaining an acre of garden as a single person would illustrate the amount of effort you have to put in and the low amount of yield you get in return. I'd love to know how people would get 'selected' as field workers. Because I doubt you'd have people rushing out to till fields by hand unless they're pressed into service. Personally I'd rather deal with a little extra chemical buildup than reinventing a modern slave class.