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Martin Heidegger compared industrial agriculture to the Holocaust, saying that both were "essentially the same". He made this comparison in a 1949 lecture while banned from teaching. 

Explanation

• Heidegger said that the motorized food industry was "essentially the same" as the production of corpses in gas chambers. 
• He believed that technology and instrumental rationality were wrong in so far as they dominated modern life. 
• He argued that the reduction of racial enemies to "standing reserve" was "in essence the same" as the enframing of fields of wheat. 
• Heidegger's critics say that his support for Nazism revealed flaws in his thought. 
• Heidegger's defenders say that his support for Nazism was a personal error that was irrelevant to his philosophy.