Coming outof World War II, there was a very conscious decisionon the part of the American...

[melodic piano music] [Ruth] Coming out
of World War II, there was a very conscious decision
on the part of the American government to make food political. They had a huge stockpile of
ammunition left over from World War II. They decide to convert
it into fertilizer. There is a deep encouragement to replace
the animals on the farm with machines. There's privileging of
efficiency, the factory model, and there is a whole notion that
one way we can fight communism is by having the cheapest and
most abundant food on earth. We had an arms race
and a farms race. You plan to outstrip us, particularly in the
production of consumer goods?