The human biology by 10k years ago was finely tuned to live a
hunter gatherer society. When we killed something we gorged on
it because of food scarcity, we turned off the trigger in our
head that told us that we were full because it simply was not
the right thing to do in an environment were we didn’t have
security in food supply the next day or down the week. But the
human population couldn’t take on that sort of life style in the
long run because of our population growth. That lead to the
development of an agricultural society where villages and
farming became central to survival. Thats how society was up
until the end of the 19th century. The US was at a turning point
in history where we had to start coming up with the means to
deal with food scarcity, how will we ensure that there is a
secure way to maintain the availability of food for the entire
population? Thats when the process being applied in the
industrial revolution began to appear in agriculture, giving us
industrial agriculture. We go modern ag