Agriculture was mankind's biggest mistake (4th time)

"However, I am sure we can all agree that it is better to live in modern times than 10,000 years ago. Now we have extremely low infant mortality, unlike the hunter gatherer's 50%. We have many comforts and very good technology that have improved our quality of life. Our food is much more reliable." In pre-agricultural times there were few social issues. Today, all of our problems are because of social life. During the cold war the US and Russia almost blew each other up because of social differences. Even in our own communities there is social injustice. Even though laws provide "equal rights", there is still racism and segregation both between race and sex. Con has not refuted the point about deadly dieses that developed because of agriculture. 10,000 years ago, there was little medicine knowledge and few ways to help injured or sick people. Because this was a problem, overtime eventually a solution would be discovered, they reason people seem to lack efficient technology was because it was 12,000 years ago, overtime new technology would have been developed. Food today is "more reliable", only because we killed any chance for domesticated plants to grow in the wild. In Mesoamerica, maize used to be wild and could survive on its own, today, if you left a corn field untreated it would die before the end of the season and would have no chance to reproduce (scatter its seeds). Today, if you know anything about food companies, you know that they are purely evil and only concerned with profit. "Modern farmers" don't exist. Today, American farmers are enslaved to food companies, they are forced to buy into their franchises, which have new equipment, (which progressively gets LESS efficient) and farmers are forced to rack up more and more debut. If you know how we really got our food, pacifically meet products, you would be discussed. Animals live in terrible conditions. This may not seem like it matters because they are going to be killed for food, but it does. Because of overproduction of corn, it is used for everything. Domestic animals (farm animals; cow, pigs, chicken etc.) are being forced to adapt to having a diet of only corn. Cows are not supposed it eat corn, it is not natural and is unhealthy. The condition the animal is in reflects the quality of the food. Cows are forced to eat terrible food that is bad for them, and they get so unhealthy they can't even move. On top of all that, they are no designated place to digest, and they are forced to live in their own waste. Dieses are spread this way and cows pass its own to each other, because they live in each other waste, and it goes into the food WE eat, and are forced to buy (unless you raise your own cows and grow everything yourself). The reason it is like this, is so that the food companies can make more money. People will knowingly harm each other just to be able to obtain little green pieces of paper, or in ancient times, shiny coins. In hunting and gathering communities people would fight for the ability to mate and reproduce, or to claim their territory. Modern-day people to only fight with guns, they fight with nuclear weapons, physiological warfare, torture, and medical warfare. People do these evil things just for money or petty materialistic things, and sometimes not even that, some people fight and war just because someone is different. Today we live in a world of corporate greed, political corruption, desire, health issues, and social and societal issues, all of which were no excitant in pre agricultural times. Sure, technology wasn't as great, but was having a little more comfort worth all of these problems? Sources: http://www.hulu.com...=