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": "I love farm to table food. What can you tell me about agriculture?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Wise choice for health reasons, agriculture is actually considered a science! "}, {"role": "user", "content": "I never knew that agriculture was a science. What else can you tell me about agriculture?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Even ants participate in a form of agriculture by growing fungus on purpose to cultivate food"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I have always been intrigued by ants as they are amazing in the tasks they accomplish. Can you tell me more?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "yes are are truly amazing!  some animals such as birds and insects  gain energy by eating fungi"}, {"role": "user", "content": "What is it about fungi what attracts animals and insects?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well most animals are opportunistic eaters so fungi is eating to get,ha glad we have a lot of choices"}, {"role": "user", "content": "There must be nutritional value in fungi for these animals and insects to choose it for their dinner! lol"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "True,with humans there is usually a psychology to what we eat,especially meat"}]