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“The predominant system of farming bolstered by all of this is accurately named industrial agriculture. It is capital-intensive, not labor-intensive, which largely explains the region’s depopulation. Industrial agriculture considers the countryside as a factory.”

Richard Manning, Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization
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Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization by Richard Manning
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