Culture was first agriculture. Society, politics, and economics resulted from humanity’s gaining command of the techniques of sowing and harvesting and the parallel skills of raising animals; two practices that required thousands of years to master b

The Economist   Many foodies pin the blame for farming’s ills on “unnatural” industrial agriculture. Agribusinesses create monocultures that destroy habitat and eliminate historic varieties. Farmers douse their crops with fertiliser and insecticide, which poison str