The Seeder

Traveling the whole day through fields makes one realize the scale of food production. If one imagines how much food is produced, its absolutely massive. Probably in a society based on growth where everything needs to continuously increase, arguments need to be found on how to increase this. It becomes hard to imagine that with such huge abundance, shortages of food exist. It becomes strange to think about what kind of food is produced in those fields, one would imagine to find as much variety as the variety we buy, but somehow we see a great part of it in a monotonic, mono-culture way, where huge machinery wraps it in large plastic bags. This is unfortunately not for human consumption. At least not directly. This feeds animals which in turn are consumed in part by humans. The ratio of food produced in those fields and the one consumed after eating the animal, is a couple of dozens. So for every 30-50Kgs of food produced in the field, only 1Kg results for direct human consumption. Not to mention the space required to keep the animals. It's shocking how we managed the available abundance to just put more business layers into it, completely de-educating the society on how to live without consuming meat. Seeing and understanding this, truly motivates us towards inverting it!