A healthy culture implies a healthy agriculture.

Beyond the technology and use of machines, today rapidly developing technology (i.e., "genetic engineering") extends into the realm of life, which we can, and therefore do, manipulate for the ostensibly noble purpose of feeding the people of the world.

Life, however, is not mechanical. To begin to comprehend life, something is desperately needed--a fundamental shift in our approach, one that seeks to comprehend the qualities of the living organism as a whole, and in relation to its whole...