It is one thing for innovation in agricultural practice to be implemented thoughtlessly; quite another for it to be opposed on principle. The introduction of bovine growth hormone is a case in point.
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Lesser, W. Technology and the family farm. Nature 347, 11–12 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1038/347011a0
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