Yeah—

You wanna know how we got here?

Sit down, plug in—let’s trace the line

From seeds to pills, from plows to swine…

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First came the seed, we stopped the roam,

Cracked the code of root and loam.

From forager fires to furrowed rows,

Man met earth—now the surplus grows.

Mesopotamia, Nile-side wheat,

Grain was king, and kings would eat.

Tilled by hand, sun overhead—

Domesticated nature, kept children fed.

But monocrop minds bred monocrop lands,

Flood the field, then scorch it with brands.

From oxen to iron, then diesel and drone—

Now tractors hum where forests had grown.

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Grow and heal, break and steal,

What’s natural now, and what’s ideal?

Splice the vine, extract the mold,

In patent hands, the cure is sold…

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Bleed ‘em out! That was the call—

Before we knew microbes at all.

Herbs and chants, some truth, some fake,

Leeches on necks, bones they’d break.

Then came the lens—van Leeuwenhoek’s view,

Little monsters in your brew.

Pasteur boiled ‘em, Koch named ‘em right,

Fleming saw penicillin bloom overnight.

Medicine rose like pharma’s tide,

From tincture carts to tests inside.

Snake oil out, but snakes still stay—

Now dressed in suits and FDA.

Insulin used to cost a buck,

Now it’s locked behind a paywall truck.

Salk gave the polio cure for free—

Today they’d license your own sneeze.

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Grow and heal, tweak and seal,

Harvest bodies, refine zeal.

What we tame, and what we cull—

Clinic or lab, pasture or skull…

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Agriculture fed the gut, medicine fed the rest,

But both got bought and built for test.

Pesticide meets Prozac haze,

Corn syrup sweetens pillbox days.

GMO to RNA,

Hormones in meat, injections spray.

Data-farmed, your health’s a code,

Uploaded, rated, diagnosed.

Grow and heal… grow and heal…

Just a story of dirt… and deals.