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I do wonder at which point does modern agriculture stop being natural? We killed micro-ecologies from vast areas of land, removed wild plants/rodents and other so-called "pests" and forced large scale growing of plants in various ways - selective breeding and process optimization to boost yields, etc. Do we call all that natural and draw the line at GMO?


> I do wonder at which point does modern agriculture stop being natural?

A point decades ago, at _least_. More likely centuries or millenia, depending on your definition.




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