We have domesticated crops over a very long period of time, like tens of thousands of years. And crops get - seeds get carried. Sometimes, if they're very small seeds, they get scattered off trucks. Pollen travels.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A lot of crops depend on labor, but they're done by farmers that don't communicate with one another. They're never in the same room together.
When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when they come in contact and digest plants that are producing materials ranging from plastics to vaccines to pharmaceutical products?
I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.
A third of our food comes from pollinating plants.
The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock.
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.
It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.