"**America now has only about 3 million men and women** (farm owners and hired labor) directly **engaged in producing food**—people who actually plow the fields, sow the seeds, apply fertilizer, eradicate weeds, harvest the crops (picking fruit and vegetables is the most labor-intensive part of the process), and take care of the animals. **That is less than 1 percent of the country’s population, and hence it is no wonder that most Americans have no idea, or only some vague notion, about how their bread or their cuts of meat came to be**." ([Location 284](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08SGC3TD3&location=284)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[urbanisation]], [[food-production]], [[ignorance]], **Source** -- [[202412030828 - B - How the World Really Works]]