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Farmers went from 70% to less than 20% of the population in a single lifetime.

How frequently do you lament their disappearance?

The health and environmental impacts of centralizing and industrializing food production are lamentable, even if most Americans don't think about it.

Less lamentable than the health impacts (famine) of not centralizing and industrializing food production!

Centralizing and industrializing food production has its own famine hazards, like if a strong solar flare were to happen.

Assuming it were feasible, do you wish you were a farmer?

I may be in the minority in this very diverse crowd, but yes, I would prefer that over my corporate job.

You would certainly be in the minority.

The vast majority of mankind has left farming, once the opportunity presented itself.