Glorious Chicago boys, where would we be without their changing "free market" meaning a market of free (in the classical sense) agents into a market of free (in the mad max sense) for all...

Mises also gave a definition of socialism that encompasses tsarist russia. I wouldn't trust him on much else.

So hm... "hunting = animal husbandry"
"firewood = nuclear power plant"
"extensive agriculture = factory farms"
"mini = SUV"

Free markets do, otherwise they're not free and controlled by who controls the information.

Because obviously the next step is to stop them from having a SUV and a car and a huge suburban house. In fact it's well known the environmentalist movement wants to firebomb (in ecologically-friendly ways) all suburbs out of existence. (I do dislike suburbs, but repealing zoning laws would do wonders on that eyesore ;) )

No, it took centuries and millenias for agriculture to show up, and then it took centuries to get to extensive agriculture. Then some forms of selection happened, thousands of years after we "started" eating plants.

Learn2read: contributor =/= sole cause.

There are a lot of ways to do small-scale farming.

Bread is actually only about 3000-4000 years old. But I agree on the rest, some of the food we've been growing forever is absolutely horrible for sustaining humanity, like manioc, which was actually abandoned for thousands of years in many places. The plant produces mostly empty calories.

Awesome, the food chain is in the hands of moustache twirling cartoon villains :/

a) No, it's fundamental science
b) so that makes what we're doing now tolerable how?
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Many of the starving african nations are there because food aid completely fucks up local agriculture and leads to their agro industry only being used for exports to fatten up eurasians and americans.

A - Engineering does fuck all without research. And Mendel still did nothing of the sort you suggest he did.
B - I'm complaining about the abuses of it. Not the system itself.

Funny how you mention diamonds, as in that case, too, they're under the control of a huge megacorporation who basically owns governments. Governments, dictators and corporations are to blame. The last one is important.

If they were not sterile Monsanto would remain villains because they've shown what happens when pollinization happens: "OMG OUR IP" and sue the already half broke farmers of the region.