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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

  • environmental debates
  • policy making
  • ethics class

Putting it to work

  • advocating sustainable farming
  • consumer choices
  • research

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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