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the guy that discovered fertilizers also was involved in in %uh making
bombs you know arms because it's a similar thing and so after world war one
and after world war two both fertilizers which are made from nitrogen
which is also how they make bombs
and and then after world war two the %um
you know what do they the nerve gas it's the nerve gas that they used in %uh the holocaust
was turned into insecticides and the stuff that's used for the bombs was
turned into to fertilizer and it was a way to shift
all of this time machinery of war into the machinery of
agriculture and there's even you know back then they even had these sort of
propaganda films where they had
you know the tanks were turning into tractors
and and so it was just a shift in order to
you know have continue this whole corporate
you know this whole corporate
thing this system right and also you know it it was just a
a decision to have agriculture more industrial in other words rather
than it being about you know farmers relationship with the soil and all those
things that was really trying to turn fields into an
industry like a factory so when you see these cornfields like in Iowa
i mean people look at those and they think well this is a nice little old mcdonald on
the farm but %um a more appropriate image is that it's simply a factory
that happens to be growing
because that's what it is it's very uniform and what they breed those plants
for is so that you can use machinery with them
I mean that's what they're for they're not
so it's and a lot of criticism of that system is based on the
fact that farmers
are removed from knowledge of the soil and knowledge of the plants and it's the
corporations you know here's the seed plant the seed and add water so a lot of this
former wisdom that's been building up over thousands of years is becoming lost
and the responsibility passes to the corporations you know tell the farmers what to
do what to grow and all that sort of thing so %uh there's a lot of complex issues
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