How is this farmers' fault? You know most of them are below the poverty line, right?
this post was submitted on 24 Jun 2025
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OK, definitely not the farmer fault,
and this meme only works in the theory that without corporation and lobbying, farme6ars still affected by profit and it ecological devastation is still likely, look into petit bourgeoisie.
but it's pointless to complain about something in theory, when in reality corporations are currently responsible
Those who were not adopting the fossil fuel intensive, machine based methods the industry was peddling were forced to sell long ago - that's why farms tend to be huge. Those who are now farming these huge pieces of land bought it up from farmers brought below the poverty line, and now they are forced to do industry farming or drown.
No they're not, farming is a fairly lucrative job. Its hard work, and you arent going to get filthy rich exactly, but nobody who farms is poor by any means. My partners grandparents are farmers, andnthey do just fine. In fact, when they eventually sell the farm land, which my partners parents inherit, they will make a crap ton of money off it.
And then you have farmers here that are below poverty line and are selling off the land just to not go bankrupt.
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nobody who farms is poor by any means
COPY PASTE THIS TO A FARMING FORUM
Part of this is also the demand. Especially in places like the us, a lot of food is wasted, or nearly spoiled before it gets to the customer, or just straight up processed into heckin' fuel and plastic.
That's not to say that it's a bit odd that subsidies from the cold war are still in effect today, and that those subsidies are being used to lobby for more subsidies :/
It does make my 3d printer filament cheap tho, thank you American taxpayers!
Grass as far as the eye can see...
Kind of why i would like to see humanity move to more compact agricultural practices like hydro/aeroponics in somewhat closed permacultre systems. Let nature return to nature.
Is that Ronald Greentree? https://au.headtopics.com/news/wealthy-farmer-fined-over-2-million-for-illegal-land-62679982