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Re:Is everything falling apart? by throwawaygh on Friday April 29, 2022 @09:16PM (#31212467)
Getting rid of those things would at most double the farm payrolls, which is still a tiny minority of Americans. For the most part, monocrops, pesticides, and fungicides have HUGE economic efficiency incentives ($ ROI / acre) even if you subtract the contribution to labor efficiency (humans / acre).
Re:Is everything falling apart? by jaegerpicker on Saturday April 30, 2022 @10:46AM (#31216459)
That's only true if you don't place a $ value on the environmental impacts.