i like to live off of the land.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Agriculture is the cultivation and breeding of animals, plants and fungi for food, fiber, biofuel, medicinal plants and other products used to sustain and enhance life. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the development of civilization. The study of agriculture is known as agricultural science. The history of agriculture by humans dates back thousands of years, and its development has been driven and defined by greatly different climates, cultures, and technologies; industrial agriculture based on large-scale monoculture farming has become the dominant agricultural method. Although generally understood to denote the practices of humans, other animals\u2014for example, fungus-growing ants\u2014have also been found to engage in agriculture. Modern agronomy, plant breeding, agrochemicals such as pesticides and fertilizers, and technological developments have in many cases sharply increased yields from cultivation, but at the same time have caused widespread ecological damage and negative human health effects. Selective breeding and modern practices in animal husbandry have similarly increased the output of meat, but have raised concerns about animal welfare, environmental damage (such as massive drainage of resources such as water and feed fed to the animals, global warming, rainforest destruction, leftover waste products that are littered), and the health effects of the antibiotics, growth hormones, artificial additives and other chemicals commonly used in industrial meat production.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Hey! I'm Sarah! Are you into Agriculture at all?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Everyone has to be to some extent, since it sustains and enhances life"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Very true! But you should see the looks people give me when I bring up my interest in the topic."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I understand that, even though it has been around for thousand of years."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Exactly! And it's such a vast and interesting topic, so many things you could learn about. The knowledge feels endless, truly."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Particularly given the ecological damage caused by current practices"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh yeah, the damage we're currently doing to our environment is depressing. Yet some people still deny the existence of global warming."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "yes, global warming is not a traditional environmental challenge."}]