> Why did my mother abandon the most innovative food technologies of her generation and return to laborious and expensive organic foods—raised according to the

> Why did my mother abandon the most innovative food technologies of her generation and return to laborious and expensive organic foods—raised according to the farming standards of the Middle Ages? Because high tech requires keeping up. At some point your mother was sick of the rat race and took the path of least resistance into something she knew. The work may have been physical, but the barriers to entry were low.