What are the advantages of farming?

Answer 1

There is a lot of advantages to farming like having fresh food like corn and carrots. There's also the advantage of living on a farm!-----------------------------------

Farming includes all agricultural activities, from raising animals for meat, eggs, fish and other aquatic creatures, fibres, leathers and many other by-products, to raising plants to feed the animals, to hydroponic installations, to raising trees for the timber, woodchip and paper industries, and so on and on. Farmers perform tasks from digging about in manure and helping sheep give birth to pushing nice, clean buttons in nice, clean offices, depending on the industry and the level of technology.

If we didn't have a global agricultural industry we would need to return to hunting for meat and gathering wild plants for vegetables, fruits and grains. Most of us would live in caves, in or under trees, or in flimsy, barely-weatherproof constructions, and would become fairly high in the food chain for predators, as well as succumbing to many more diseases than we now fall prey to. We'd probably need all the cats and dogs for meat rather than mousing and ratting, and small vermin would proliferate.

We would chronically suffer from malnutrition and frequently die from using polluted water, or from lack of water, or from too much water.

Infant mortality would very quickly rise dramatically and our life expectancy would plummet.

All in all, there would suddenly be far less people on the planet, and rapidly getting rarer, living pretty nearly at one with nature, which isn't nearly the pretty sight one might imagine...

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