Thursday, September 15, 2011

Chapter 2: First Farmers The Revolution of Agriculture

Farming and agriculture is essential for humans since it provides us with the proper food and nutritions that we need.  Providing healthy vegetables, fruit, and meat, it's what keeps us alive.  Not to mention that it is a source for money for farmers and their families.  This topic was very interesting for me because me family grew up in a farm in Michoacan, Mexico.  My Grandpa, Procopio Ordaz had a farm with a corn field of 20 acres, which he would pick and sale in the city and use to provide for his family.  Not to mention that he had cows that gave him milk, chickens that gave him eggs, and pigs that he sold or ate.  Farming has existed since 10,000 B.C.E. and my grandpa farmed around in the 1950's.  It shows that farming has come a long way and evolved so much and has been very crucial for societies.  It was a big step for us because at the time, humans had lost their keen ability to hunt and without game to eat, people would starve.  So the next best thing was domesticate animals like cows and chickens that would produce food.

The problem right now is that farming in the US is started to fade away and we are the number one super power in the world.  There are only 5% of people living on farms.  Agriculture is a big necessity in our lives.   What are we going to do when farming and agriculture are gone?  Use machines that can't and won't produce organic food?  Think about how different the human race would have been if there was no agriculture and farming.  There population could have been way less and not as much humans could have been produced meaning that human race could have been extinct.  We have to understand that farming is essential for us and it needs to be preserved