Is Modern farming a boon or curse?

Answer 1

That all depends on your point of view. For the unbiased person, it is both. It allows urbanization and people to have jobs that never would exist if modern agriculture never existed, and to produce more food per acre for more people than what could have been imagined a hundred or 200 years ago. And yet it also allows those who are urbanized and generations removed from the farm to develop incorrect and warped views of what agriculture is really about. It also faces criticism for being a contributing factor to climate change/global warming and for a source of animal cruelty by animal rights extremists.