Average person Quote by Daniel Berleant

“Agricultural productivity had been rising for some time, leading to increasing production of food and, as food accounted for most of the household budget,…

— Edward A. Hudson

“The average farmer worked harder than the average forager, and got a worse diet in return. The Agricultural Revolution was history’s biggest fraud.2”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“more and better resources going into agriculture allowed food production to increase over the centuries. GDP increased, although along an irregular path, at an…

— Edward A. Hudson

As our farms and factories grew more efficient, they accounted for a shrinking share of our economy. And the more productive agriculture and manufacturing…

— Rutger Bregman

If you ask across the section of farmers in the country how many of them want their children to go into farming, believe me,…

— Jaggi Vasudev

“This is the essence of the Agricultural Revolution: the ability to keep more people alive under worse conditions. Yet”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“In any sane society, a farmer is a billion times more important than an economist.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We spend a trillion dollars a year on food, but it’s only 9.4 percent of our expendable income, the lowest percentage of any country…

— Mark Bittman

There's an unexpectedly high share of workers still in agriculture, .. That's like a fault line.

— Edward Taylor

“Interestingly, self-employed people make up less than 20 percent of the workers in America but account for two-thirds of the millionaires.”

— Thomas J. Stanley

“Between 1970 and 1992, a million farms—36 percent of all American farms—ceased to exist.”

— Richard Manning

In the US in the 1900's 60 % of people were employed on the farms. Today it's less than 1%. If you told people…

— Bill Gates