> Globalization has largely killed farming as a viable livelihood (in most of the EU at least) Honestly that was really primarily mechanisation and industriali

> Globalization has largely killed farming as a viable livelihood (in most of the EU at least) Honestly that was really primarily mechanisation and industrialisation. The number of people required to farm a given area of land has _plummeted_; in Europe it is still artificially inflated with subsidies.