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For Agriculture: “Planted crops yield far more tons per acre than roots and berries.”

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“Kalahari Bushmen, continue to support themselves that way. It turns out that these people have plenty of leisure time, sleep a good deal, and work less hard than their farming neighbors.”

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"Skeletons from Greece and Turkey show that the average height of hunter-gatherers toward the end of the ice ages was a generous 5'9" for men, 5'5" for women. With the adoption of agriculture, height crashed, and by 3000 B. C. had reached a low of only 5'3" for men and 5' for women."

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“For instance, the average time devoted...the Hadza nomads of tanzania”
This quote goes against the idea of agriculture saying that it is way more tiring than hunting and gathering.

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“Farmers has a nearly 50 percent increase in enamel defects indicative of malnutrition... probably reflecting a lot of hard physical labor.”

Against agriculture

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"With agriculture came the gross social and sexual inequality, the disease and despotism that curse our existence"
Against agriculture

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Against Agriculture: “Since no food is grown and little is stored, there is (in this view) no respite from the struggle that starts anew each day to find wild foods and avoid starving”

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Against Agriculture “Farming may have encouraged inequality between the sexes.”

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“It’s almost inconceivable that Bushmen, who eat 75 or so wild plants, could die of starvation the way hundreds of thousands of Irish farmers...potato famine of the 1840s”

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Against agriculture: “Finally, the mere fact that agriculture encouraged people to clump together...infectious diseases.”

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Against:”life expectancy at birth in the pre-agricultural community was 26...in the post-agricultural community was 19”

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“In particular, recent discoveries suggest that the adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step towards a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered.”

this argument is against agriculture because it is presenting the fact was thought to be a step in the right direction but has accomplished the opposite.

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“...farming helped bring another curse upon humanity: deep class divisions.”

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Against Agriculture: “The evidence suggest that the Indians at Dickson Mounds, like many other primitive peoples, took up farming not by choice but from necessity in order to feed their constantly growing numbers.”

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Against agriculture: “The evidence suggests that the Indians at Dickson Mounds, like many other primitive peoples, took up farming not by choice...growing numbers.”

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Against Agriculture: “Women in agricultural societies were sometimes made beasts of burden.”

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“Bushmen...Could die of starvation the way hundreds of Irish farmers and their families did during the potato famine”

Against agriculture

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Against: “The mere fact that agriculture encouraged people to clump together in crowded societies...led to the spread of parasites and infectious disease.”

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“Or will we somehow achieve those seductive blessings that we imagine behind agriculture’s glittering facade, and that have so far eluded us?”

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“Since crops can be stored, and since it takes less time than to pick food... agriculture gave us free time that hunter gatherers never had”

Supporting agriculture

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“ ‘Life expectancy at birth in the pre-agricultural’...it was nineteen years.”

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“As our second midnight approaches, will the plight of famine stricken peasants gradually spread to engulf us all?”
This quote goes against agriculture by highlighting the negative aspects of it such as the famine that can come from it.

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“Skeletons from Greek tombs at Mycenae c. 1500 B. C. suggests that royals enjoyed a better diet from commoners, since the royal skeletons were two or three inches taller and has better teeth (on the average, one instead of six cavities or missing teeth).

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"Compared to the hunter-gatherers who preceded them... probably reflecting a lot of hard physical labor."
Against Agriculture

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“Hunter-gatherers practiced the most successful and longest-lasting life style I’m human history...whether we can solve it.”

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"Archaeologists have excavated some 800 skeletons that paint a picture of the health changes that occured when a hunter-gatherer culture gave way to intensive maize farming around A.D. 1150... Compared to the hunter-gatherers who preceded them."
Against Agriculture

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Against:”Hunter gatherer practiced the most successful and longest lasting lifestyle... In contrast, we’re still struggling with the mess into which agriculture has tumbled us and it’s unclear whether we can solve it.”

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“In particular, recent discoveries suggest... despotism that curse our existence.”

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“besides malnutrition, starvation, and epidemic diseases, farming helped bring another curse upon humanity: deep class divisions”
this quote goes against agriculture by showing the negative effects it has has on society and the seemingly worse effects it began to cause.

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“Forced to choose between... starvation, warfare, and tyranny.”
Against agriculture

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“Hunters- gatherers practice the most successful and longest-lasting lifestyle in human history”