1\ (;1':']( · \ 1 1 II!II newly discovered territory was first visited by the advance gll;lnl (II production, as a wide descriptive literature shows, the wild mammals "lid birds showed no fear whatsoever of the explorers. The agriculturalizcd mentality, however, so aptly foretold in the hiblical passage, projects "" exaggerated belief in the fierceness of wild creatures, which follows from progressive estrangement and loss of contact with the animal world, plus the need to maintain dominance over it. The fate of domestic animals is defined by the fact that agricultural technologists continually look to factories as models of how to refine their own prmluction systems. Nature is banished from these systems as, increasingly, [arm animals are kept largely immobile throughout their deformed lives, maintaineu in high-density, wholly artificial environments. Billions of chickens, pigs, and veal calves, for example, no longer even see the light of day much less roam the fields, fields growing more silent as more and morc pastures are plowed up to grow fecd for these hideously confined beings. The high-tech chickens, whose beak ends have been clipped off to rcduce death from stress-induced fighting, often exist four or even five to a l2" by 18" cage and are periodically deprived of food and water for up to tcn days to regulate their egg-laying cycles. Pigs live on concrete floors with no bedding; foot-rot, tail-biting and cannibalism are endemic because of physical conditions and stress. Sows nurse their piglets scparated by metal grates, mother and offspring barred from natural contact. Veal calves are often raised in darkness, chained to stalls so narrow as to disallow turning around or other normal posture adjustment. Thesc animals arc generally under regimens of constant mcdication due to the tortures involved and their heightened susccptibility to diseases; automated animal production relies upon hormones and antibiotics. Such systematic cruelty, not to mention the kind of food that results, brings to mind the fact that captivity itself and every form of enslavement has agriculturc as its progenitor or model. Food has been one of our most direct contacts with the natural environment, but we are rendered increasingly dependent on a technological production system in which finally even our senses have become redundant; taste, once vital for judging a food's value or safcty, is no longcr experienced, but rather certified by a label. Overall, thc healthfulness of what we consume declines and land once cultivated for food now produces coffee, tobacco, grains for alcohol, marijuana, and other drugs, creating the context for famine. Even the non-processed foods like fruits and vegetables are now grown to be tasteless and uniform because the demands of handling, transport and storage, not nutrition or pleasure, .111; . 11\1.\'[ 1H;jl\\: , · :\ ' \'1 1 . i\ lI· N , .. , ,)\ \\. 1 1 1 ..... \ 1 I;: :!I :rielll t u rc to defoliate mi l llio d ns )f acr ! S t n e ' . . , ., . W· r but the p un enng 0 '" ",11"·,,,1 ASIa Ilurlng th V l c tn a m l . a. , d ·l global forms Food as I,,, " I ' H· I C pl\lce( s . I . , . _ . . I· even more Icthal v In Its al y, . t· d 't · has . . 'I d also tal e mlsera . bly on the most ohvlous ., IUllrllnn n pro ue IOn . . k . ffers from malnourishment b,.I: half of the world, as everyone now>, su. . I.l liging to starvation . itself. f . T 'tion n as discussed hy Eaton and Meanwhile, the "dlseascs 0 cl ; : a En land Journal of Medicine and 1,,"ll1er in the January 31, 1985 ,,,"Irasted with the healthful pr. e- armln t g I ·,i.-klv world 0 c romc ,,,'"llitacturcrs 0 mc Y • • f f h . maladJustmcn we I ' f- '. g ,r cts underline the joyless, . .'n'habit as prey of the d f' br·lcated food Domestica· dicine cosmehc5, an a . . Iltln reaches new heights of the pat o oglca In . .' hI · 1· genetic food engineenng, . f ·mals in the offing as well as contnved mlcroor , gan . _ wllh ne e j" : \:callY, humanity itsclf will also becomc a domeSHcate ::;n;h o;d: s the world of production processcs us as much as It degrades and deforms every other natu al , syst:d carried through by The project of subdumg nature, egun . agriculture, has assume g g . . h ' " d .i antic proportIOns. T e succes . s" of I" h manily never wanted tastes civilization's progress, a success ca S r Icr _Il u . mmed it up this w'ay: ""I n d . I"k ashes James erpe su more an more Ie , . . hed the end of the line. We cannot expand; short we appe b a l r t t ( o ) n : fy ac product ion without wreaking further havoc, we seem una e "nd thc planet is fa t e c g : e ;; l ::·initiation of agriculture "a PhYSiologist Jare la f h· h e have never recovere . " d "Agriculture has been catastrophe o ':' Ie w h "at all levels, the one which underpins the nd t . r e c :: i : l :;- t al culture of alienation nOW dcstroymg us. cn If . d· I t n Liberation is impossible without Its ISSO u 10 .
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