Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/203/en

It must be said at the outset: agriculture, compared with industrial enterprise, necessarily produces at higher cost, because the cheapening principle of division of labor contradicts its conditions of production — the manifold within the whole. One seeks to escape this by going over to the industrial mode of production. The wholeness of the farm organism is for this purpose taken apart, broken down into its pieces. Each piece becomes, for itself, with considerable capital expenditure, an industrial-agricultural single enterprise that produces masses under apparently calculable framework conditions in a highly specialized way and dominates the market at an incomparably cheap price. But this cheapening is a deception — because the consequential costs, arising from environmental destruction and from the impairment of the nutritive value of the products, as well as from the costs of subsidies — of subsidized unreason — are loaded onto the general public, passing the market by. Were these hidden costs to be added to the producer price of the industrial¹²¹³