There's an old Taiwanese woman lives next door to me who collects bottles and cans in our neighborhood to supplement the shitty pension the government gives people here- comes to around 100 US a month I think. Like most country people she's not in the least intimidated by foreigners, so sometimes we talk a little about the bad old days. But I have to sit when we talk because she only comes up to my solar plexus or so.
A lifelong, mostly vegetarian diet of all-natural, organic, pesticide free grains and green vegetables stunted her growth to the point that her twelve year old granddaughter stands a head taller than she. Decades of wholesome physical labor, stooped over rows of rice plants in the fields outlying our town bent her spine so that she walks in a permanent crouch, like a beetle. I've never seen her stand up straight.
I don't think she can anymore.
So, traditional agriculture. Yeah.
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