#34 Richard Manning - How Agriculture Has Highjacked Civilization
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On this episode of "Death in The Garden" we talk to author and journalist, Richard Manning after reading his book Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Highjacked Civilization, which discusses "catastrophic" agriculture's spread throughout history, its pattern of colonialism, and how it is a prerequisite for our civilization. We talk about the problems of agriculture broadly, including processed foods, CAFO meat farming, and the squandering of America's grasslands for biofuels, hunting, degrowth through regenerative food systems, the rewilding of the self, and the problems of carbon fundamentalism.
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Outro music: "The Defeat" by Ben Howard
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