In his text "The Folly of Big Agriculture," Verlyn Klinkenberg criticizes the industrialized, large-scale farming practices that have come to dominate the modern agricultural landscape. By the "folly of big agriculture," he means the misguided and unsustainable nature of these practices. Klinkenberg contends that large-scale agriculture puts immediate financial gain ahead of long-term environmental sustainability. It mainly relies on monoculture farming, in which vast tracts of land are set aside for a single crop, depleting the soil and making it more susceptible to pests and diseases…