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The agricultural foundations of civilization

The agricultural foundations of civilization Thomas Wessel Thomas Wessel is Professor of History, Montana State University. His publications on agriculture include Agriculture in the Great Plains, 1876-1930 and Great Plains Renaissance: Essays on Agricultural Development in the Great Plains, 1920-1950. J.H. Fabre once lamented, "History ingredients necessary to sustain life. celebrates the battlefields wherein we Most of the vitamins, trace minerals, and particularly the amino acids meet our death, but scorns to speak of necessary to build body protein must the plowed fields whereby we thrive. It come already prepackaged in the food knows the names of the King's bastards stuffs consumed. There are approxi- but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. mately 20 amino acids in nature, I0 of This is the way of Human folly." Jacob which are "essential" to human growth. Molschott reduced all human under- None are manufactured in the process of standing to the simple phrase, "Der digestion, but are indeed, broken out Mensch ist was er isst," Mankind is of the food stuffs in the digestion what he eats. Although both gentlemen were perhaps overstating the case, they cycle. So long as societies depended on hunting and the consumption of red were and remain surprisingly close to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Agriculture and Human Values Springer Journals

The agricultural foundations of civilization

Agriculture and Human Values , Volume 1 (2) – Apr 5, 2005

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Springer Journals
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Philosophy; Ethics; Agricultural Economics; Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science; History, general; Evolutionary Biology
ISSN
0889-048X
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1572-8366
DOI
10.1007/BF01530609
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Abstract

Thomas Wessel Thomas Wessel is Professor of History, Montana State University. His publications on agriculture include Agriculture in the Great Plains, 1876-1930 and Great Plains Renaissance: Essays on Agricultural Development in the Great Plains, 1920-1950. J.H. Fabre once lamented, "History ingredients necessary to sustain life. celebrates the battlefields wherein we Most of the vitamins, trace minerals, and particularly the amino acids meet our death, but scorns to speak of necessary to build body protein must the plowed fields whereby we thrive. It come already prepackaged in the food knows the names of the King's bastards stuffs consumed. There are approxi- but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. mately 20 amino acids in nature, I0 of This is the way of Human folly." Jacob which are "essential" to human growth. Molschott reduced all human under- None are manufactured in the process of standing to the simple phrase, "Der digestion, but are indeed, broken out Mensch ist was er isst," Mankind is of the food stuffs in the digestion what he eats. Although both gentlemen were perhaps overstating the case, they cycle. So long as societies depended on hunting and the consumption of red were and remain surprisingly close to

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Published: Apr 5, 2005

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