Answer:
TRUE
Explanation:
Machines have their place on farms and ranches. Researchers have calculated how the tractor's plowing, planting, and harvesting has saved tens of millions of people and draft animals from backbreaking toil. And personal experience has taught me the indispensability of a tractor for lifting and moving heavy objects on a ranch. But broadly adopting an industrial model in agriculture -- especially for raising animals - has been disastrous.
In the Unsettling of America, Wendell Berry builds perhaps the most compelling case that technology has been misapplied to agriculture. Industrialization, he argues, is the primary cause of our depopulated farms and rural towns. In 1790, 90 percent of our people were engaged in agriculture. Today, technology and decades of federal policy that deliberately reduced agricultural jobs have shrunk the farm community.
The actual purpose of the Declaratory Act of 1766 was to save UK from embarrassment, and to abolish the Stamp Act and lessen the impact of Sugar Act without admitting that they UK was wrong to introduce them in the first place: the Declaratory Act was phrased only as to declare anew the right of the Crown over the colonies.
