Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/779/en

• Global availability: harvest in an unripe state — refrigeration along world-spanning transport routes — thereafter artificially induced post-ripening, e.g. bananas.
• Nitrogen fertilization (cf. Ch. Manuring): a fundamentally disturbed or hypertrophied metabolism in the plants. They want to keep on growing.
• Monoculture: made possible by all kinds of genetic engineering (GMO) — an arbitrary intervention in the genome, the physical shadow cast by the archetypal image of plants — as well as by the large-scale application of life-hostile pesticides, herbicides and other growth regulators.