In an attempt to meet rising global demand, industrial agriculture practices have devastated topsoil and soil microbiology.

Many young people find themselves overburdened by student debt and insufficient job markets for both college and high school graduates.

To combat loss of soil nutrition and protect agro-business firms, the industrial model uses chemical pesticides to artificially create bounty, producing tasteless unhealthy food.

In the USA, the over reliance on pharmaceuticals to treat illness and the private health care system costs $4 trillion per year.

The deterioration of the quality of food has led to increased rates of chronic diseases for many citizens of the Western world, especially children.

The growing wealth gap between the elites and everyone else has produced a shrinking middle class and feeds a cultural divide between rural and urban.

The rise of the modern global industrial age has proliferated the rate of climate change around the world.

A reexamination of what it means to be human, an American, and what it means to survive on Earth today, has spurred individual introspection, cultural upheaval, and environmental activism.