Rudy Canoza wrote:

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> There is nothing magical or mystical about farming. It's a business.

It differs from cosmetic manufactureing. We absolutely NEED FOOD. We
don't need a lot of other stuff that is being made. To be sure, farming
is a business, but it is a business without which our civillization
would collapse. Can you see 300 million people thrown to their own
devices to find food if there were no farmers. If the alien space bats
kidnapped all the farmers then we would have to produce a new generation
of farmers pretty damned quick. There is only so much food stored up.
Soon we weould have to grow more or die.

Bob Kolker