Monday, February 23, 2015

2/23/15

Tonight's homework is to complete Assignment 35 and respond to the following questions.

How has agriculture changed over the past century?
What are the implications/consequences of these changes to agriculture?
How should we think about agriculture? Has it been good? Bad? And for whom?
Reading from today's class - The 20th Century Transformation of U.S. Agriculture and Farm Policy (NOTE: We only read pages 1 through 8, not the whole document)

Useful Resources
The Agricultural Revolution (video clip from class)

Agriculture: The Accident That Changed the World
The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race by Jared Diamond (Discovery Magazine)

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