Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Langdon Winner, Intensive Animal Farming, Jacques Ellul

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In the essay winner describes how potatoes are ascribed. To accommodate the rough motion of these harvesters, agricultural researchers bred new varieties of tomatoes [the hard tomato], which, are hardier, sturdier and less tasty than those previously grown. The number of tomato growers declined from approximately 4,000 in the early 1960s to about 600 in 1973, and yet there was a substantial increase in the tons of tomatoes produced . Feature of the production process is a highly industrialize and centralized cycle that does not serve the community, but rather a much vaster nation. Producing unknown problems which aren"t solving by changing the ways, but thinking about how the problems can be solved by producing the efficiency. Highlight the mode of problem solving that performs so much of what we do and why. On farms today, everything has to work better than ever. Cheap food policy is designed to produce food cheaply at an affordable price.