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Published Jul 10, 2023 Updated Jul 10, 2023 Health

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Biopesticides

Alessandro Perin

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How to manipulate nature sustainably

Industrial production: the advantages...

The process of natural selection has developed numerous highly complex life forms. Despite their diversity, what they all have in common is the need to feed themselves. We humans are also characterized by this need, but we are distinguished from all other life forms by our peculiar ability to organize the growth and consumption of other species in ways that maximize yield: we manage the production of our food through cultivation and breeding. This ability of ours has been particularly evident with the advent of industrial-scale food production, which, thanks to agricultural machinery, has enabled people in the most technologically advanced countries to abandon the countryside in favor of city life. In fact,