Need I say, after that, that quite to the contrary of what we are told about the British agriculturists becoming “meat-makers” instead of “wheat-growers,” no corresponding increase of live stock took place during the last twenty-five years.
Kropotkin critiques the narrative that British agriculture has shifted towards livestock production without a corresponding increase in livestock numbers.
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