For those of us who find ourselves caught up in the here and now, swimming in sound bytes and consuming the chatter of the day…here’s a brief history lesson on the necessary advent of modern agriculture courtesy of this recent article in The New Yorker. The article is both a history of the past (agriculture) and what history in the making (health care) might learn from it.
While it wouldn’t hurt to read the whole article, you owe it to yourself to pay particular attention beginning at paragraph 7 and reading for 14 more.
With all the talking heads and activists yammering about the ills of America’s farming system, perhaps a quick refresher on how dire things once were, and the positive impact of evolving farm practice, is exactly what we need.
Read the article here.
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