Seed diversity and soil preservation are the foundations of healthy agriculture. Over many generations, farmers have developed varieties of wheat, rice, corn, and other crops that are adapted to local growing conditions. Industrial‐chemical agriculture has abandoned that local knowledge, replacing seed diversity with genetically uniform crops that require large doses of fertilizers and chemical poisons to survive. One way the United States exerted control over Iraq, starting in 2003, was to enable agribusiness to disrupt thousands of years of tradition by imposing industrial methods on the country where evidence of the earliest mass production of food was discovered. Thus, it seems that conquest of people goes hand in hand with conquest of soil. There is resistance to agribusiness around the world. In the United States, small farms and urban agriculture are not only providing healthy food but also reconnecting people who grow up in cities with the life of the soil.

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农业的不同见解：工业化学与小型农场以及城市有机生产

种子多样性和土壤保持是健康农业的基础。几代人以来，农民已经开发了适合当地生长条件的小麦，水稻，玉米和其他农作物。工业化学农业放弃了当地的知识，用遗传上统一的农作物代替了种子多样性，而农作物需要大量的化肥和化学毒物才能生存。从2003年开始，美国对伊拉克实施控制的一种方式是，通过对发现最早的食品大规模生产证据的国家采用工业方法，使农业综合企业能够破坏数千年的传统。因此，似乎征服人民与征服土壤齐头并进。世界各地对农业综合企业都有抵制。在美国，