Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/158/en

Of the many themes, two are treated with remarkable thoroughness. The first complex of themes is the socio-economic analysis of the present situation of agriculture. Put briefly: agriculture has industrialized itself, without ever being able to *be* an industry. Capital formation and return on capital are alien to the nature of agriculture, insofar as it still has anything to do with 'land.' What belongs to it instead — and what industry does not know — is this: it does not consume its means of production — soil, plants, animals — in the production process, but rather preserves or improves them. This positive accounting in the sense of the living household of the earth, including its water and climate household, is agriculture's actual contribution to the economy as a whole; and the author conducts the entire consideration in such a way that this perspective receives an illumination from the future. For through this, biodynamic agriculture grows into a social-formative task that has not yet been recognized and taken hold of to the degree portrayed in this work. All