The Most Important Profession in Society

Farmers.

It's no surprise that as a society progresses and urbanizes, its citizens naturally become more and more disconnected from needing to attend to the basic needs of life (like food, water, and survival) and gravitates to problems of lesser necessity... though I do wish this wouldn't entail the lionization of farmers as a demographic.

For all those who have forgotten, food doesn't magically appear at the supermarket; people worked hard to deliver those... though too often, the people sending food to urban centers are marginalized and criticized by those who barely have any concept of what farming entails.

Restrictions on farming practices pile on year after year. Agricultural progress seems to be an afterthought, despite having unequivocally fostered and developed concurrently with human civilization since its birth.

I've been told that cattle cannot naturally digest corn.
I've been told that Australia only has so many fertile wheat fields because of phosphorus-infused fertilizer (as the land is severely deficient in phosphorous and would grow NOTHING otherwise), which is not a renewable resource.
I've been told that global warming will improve the crop output of the U.S. by 20% by 2020.
I've been told that 'organically raised' and 'sustainably raised' are mutually exclusive.
I've been told that humans who reject all foods that are processed (or from animals) are healthier than those who do not.

I can give you my opinion on these matters if you like... but I've included no links here for a reason.

Go find out.
If you have any opinion on how civilization is fed, find out.
Don't listen to me. Don't just feed off of information from an article, commercial, ad, documentary, or self-proclaimed specialist. Search for answers.

If you don't care to find out the finer details of the single most important profession in existence yet still have a strong opinion about the practices it entails, then I strongly suggest you re-evaluate your position.

They feed everyone. They deserve better than this.