"Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs"

This quote by Martin Heidegger recommends that the industrialization and mechanization of farming has actually turned it into a harmful force, comparable to atrocities devoted throughout the Holocaust and war. The contrast to the production of corpses in gas chambers and the manufacture of hydrogen bombs suggests that Heidegger sees the effect of modern-day farming as actively damaging and damaging to both individuals and the environment.