You can't teach an old dog new tricks, or so the saying goes. The farming industry, or at least today's farmers who try farming like their grandfathers did, has tried its damnedest to go against that old idiom. Just imagine a farmer from the middle of the 20th century gazing at all the machinery and sophistication of a modern-day farm, or better yet walking into a Whole Foods. He might not believe his eyes, but if only he looked at the cash register receipts and books, he might wish he'd been born a century or two later. Some of the advances of modern-day "factory farming" or "industrial farming" surely have increased the capacity for production and output, and there have been incredible advancements in money-saving technologies, but at the end of the day, not all of these so-called improvements actually provide a better or safer world for farmers, the consumers who support them, or the animals that are raised and then slaughtered by them. Maybe today's idea of a perfect farm is not as "messy and painful, bloody and dirty" as it used to be, but then again, is that really such a good thing?
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