It drives me crazy people don’t want farmers to be given aid. We already get so much of our food abroad and thats only going to get worse. Farm gate values are absolutely trash and any smaller than large scale industrial farm is hurting bad. Wanting domestic farmers and agriculture to fail is the epitome of cutting off your nose to spite your face. You want a food economy completely dependant on foreign import? Good luck when we have the most trade hostile president in history.
Yeah I agree. Cheering this on feels good, because fuck Trump and fuck Trump voters, but it is so shortsighted.
The remaining small- and medium-sized farms are going to go under, and get bought up by the big Ag firms. We are speeding straight towards a monopoly on farming in this country.
The consequences of an Ag monopoly will be devastating for the environment, devastating for the economy, and devastating for anyone who wants to eat healthy food.
Remember those feelings around election time. More importantly remind them.
We’re all frustrated by devastation to the economy, the environment, our reputation and influence in the world. Some of us are getting really anxious about our longer term position in the sciences and technology, our culture, our law and justice, of what’s going to remain after the looters are gone, whether they somehow become a “political dynasty”.
But we didn’t vote for this and it’s getting much tougher to have sympathy for those who did this to all of us
It drives me crazy people don’t want farmers to be given aid. We already get so much of our food abroad and thats only going to get worse. Farm gate values are absolutely trash and any smaller than large scale industrial farm is hurting bad. Wanting domestic farmers and agriculture to fail is the epitome of cutting off your nose to spite your face. You want a food economy completely dependant on foreign import? Good luck when we have the most trade hostile president in history.
Yeah I agree. Cheering this on feels good, because fuck Trump and fuck Trump voters, but it is so shortsighted.
The remaining small- and medium-sized farms are going to go under, and get bought up by the big Ag firms. We are speeding straight towards a monopoly on farming in this country.
The consequences of an Ag monopoly will be devastating for the environment, devastating for the economy, and devastating for anyone who wants to eat healthy food.
Remember those feelings around election time. More importantly remind them.
We’re all frustrated by devastation to the economy, the environment, our reputation and influence in the world. Some of us are getting really anxious about our longer term position in the sciences and technology, our culture, our law and justice, of what’s going to remain after the looters are gone, whether they somehow become a “political dynasty”.
But we didn’t vote for this and it’s getting much tougher to have sympathy for those who did this to all of us
Were these subsidies going to small farmers though? Usually these things end up benefiting the giants.
Yea the subsidies disproportionately benefit the large corporate farms.
But they are also one of the last things keeping the small farmers solvent.
Easy to say, but how do you get those farmers on board with that?