According to the book, there are still food foragers that oppose the transition of food production. One of the reasons why food foragers choose to oppose food production is that food foragers prefer to naturally manage the resources on which they depend on (pg.107). Evidently, there are good consequences and bad consequences that resulted from society's transition to food production. According to Jared Diamond's article, one negative consequence that resulted from this transition is the origin of deadly human infectious diseases. These diseases were a product of the increase of human contact. Within a large population, the spread of disease is more probable due to a large group of people that can pass along diseases upon each
