Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/909/en

This primal-ecological principle is broken, in individual members of the agricultural organism, above all in arable and garden cultivation, by the principle of monoculture. Wheat, potatoes in the field, lettuce in the garden stand, as a rule — setting aside mixed cultures for the moment — like every other crop, in pure stand. This entails a one-sided narrowing that necessarily results in a weakening of the life organisation of the farm. It acts as a disease-maker and leads, in agrarian-industrial farming, where regulated crop rotations no longer play any role, to the deployment of a wide spectrum of abiotic production inputs, with the unavoidable effect of far-reaching, life-hostile side effects. Every one-sided narrowing reduces the conditions under which the universal forces of the cosmos bring themselves to appearance in the earthly. They lose their dominion over the central forces. And with that, the kernel of the question of food quality is simultaneously addressed.