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Michael Pollan, "Deep Agriculture"
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Michael Pollan, "Deep Agriculture"

by Kevin Kelly
May 6, 02009

Michael Pollan

Making farmers cool again

Farming has become an occupation and cultural force of the past. Michael Pollan’s talk promoted the premise — and hope — that farming can become an occupation and force of the future. In the past century American farmers were given the assignment to produce lots of calories cheaply, and they did. They became the most productive humans on earth. A single farmer in Iowa could feed 150 of his neighbors. That is a true modern miracle…

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