Food production Quote by Jared Diamond

Forced to choose between limiting population or trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare, and tyranny.

— Jared Diamond

“Then why didn’t humans abandon farming when the plan backfired? Partly because it took generations for the small changes to accumulate and transform society…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Skeletal remains taken from various regions of the world dating to the transition from foraging to farming all tell the same story: increased famine,…

— Christopher Ryan

“Rather than heralding a new era of easy living, the Agricultural Revolution left farmers with lives generally more difficult and less satisfying than those…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“less in danger of starvation and disease. The Agricultural Revolution certainly enlarged the sum total of food at the disposal of humankind, but the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

“Bioarchaeologists have linked the agricultural transition to a significant decline in nutrition and to increases in disease, mortality, overwork, and violence in areas where…

— David Christian

“The stress of farming had far-reaching consequences. It was the foundation of large-scale political and social systems. Sadly, the diligent peasants almost never achieved…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“It’s sometimes argued that there’s no real progress; that a civilization that kills multitudes in mass warfare, that pollutes the land and oceans with…

— Robert M. Pirsig

“With the advent of farming, human horizons expanded.”

— James Dale Davidson

Agriculture probably required a far greater discipline than did any form of food collecting. Seeds had to be planted at certain seasons, some protection…

— Charles Heiser