[ He might just be leading her on, setting her up to tease her more - but as it is, that anyone would listen to her is plenty enough. ]

We behave like this is still the time of isolation. Like there isn't better technology available to us now, better understandings. And yet, people are still using the same crops, the same way as we have done for hundred of years - like we are unable to understand how one crop might affect the ones afterwards. Which it does. The earth must be balanced, so that we can produce more, feed those in our care more, and better quality so that they may become stronger.

[ Radical, perhaps, a hundred years ago. That they should think of turning that food inward, rather than just selling it. But, still. ] Yet, the same old rich idiots that think making do is the same as succeeding, insist that the same things should always be planted because that's how it has always been done. [ She makes a noise, wretch with disgust over having to listen to far too many people insist about it. ] And they will not use proper fertilisers, either to supplement a tired field. The Betans optimise such productions, why can't we?