Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Modern agriculture reduces nature to industrial output, equating it with extreme destructive forces.
- In plain terms
- Farming today is just like industry and weapons.
- What can you take from it?
- Question the industrialization of natural processes.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Is farming just industry?
- Where is the value in food?
Another view
The comparison to camps may be hyperbolic and distracting.
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