The World Is Getting Fatter and No One Knows How to Stop It
Here&#x27;s a crazy theory of mine - just planting some seeds.<p>Industrial scale farming is creating &quot;institutionalized&quot; plants - we call them &quot;fields&quot;, but they could be looked at as industrial plant camps, were plants don&#x27;t have to do any effort to grow - there are no pests, there is no competition from other plants, there&#x27;s plenty of food (fertilizer) and water, etc. We take care of everything for them so the plants grow up big and &quot;lazy&quot;.<p>Similar thing is happening to farmed animals, who are fed these &quot;lazy&quot; plants and kept in similar &quot;food camps&quot; in conditions which prevent physical movement, competition or effort.<p>Plants or animals, goal is to obtain highest weight in shortest amount of time in order to increase profits.<p>I remember the taste of the vegetables from my grandmother&#x27;s garden. Rich, full and powerful. Plants were strong, showed signs of fighting for survival - having scars and being bitten by insects, etc.<p>My grandmother took care of those plants personally. She talked to them, she touched them, she collected pests manually. 
Similar thing with the animals that she had on her farm.<p>Of course there was no obesity in my grandmother&#x27;s village.<p>I think there is a connection between &quot;lazy&quot; plants and low energy that it generates in their consumers - be it humans or animals. This &quot;laziness&quot; and the instruction to grow to large sizes may be transmitted from species to species by mechanisms which might not be known yet.