Farming

What is the "Agri-Biz"?

One great point is the part where she explains how the bigger family farms seem to be dead set against local schools and hospitals and whatever they deem outside of their control.

Interesting.

Sarah On Farming

• Most of our sacred "small farmers" are millionaires pulling down six-figure incomes.
• Farm labor is often exploited and trafficked, and farmers know it
• The US has spent years shifting farm production to soybeans and corn - for livestock feed, and practically anything other than food for humans - and then Trump decided to kick the struts out from under it
• Farmers either get markets wired in for them, or they get bailed out.
• It's hard not to believe the whole fuckin' thing is rigged

On The Farm

It's always good news and bad news.

• If the harvest yield is high, then the prices are low
• If the prices are high, then the harvest yield is low

BTW, Trump has changed the rules, so the big players can get busy squeezing out the little guys.

Farming

Why did they vote against Biden? Because he fucked with their slavery operations in 2021 and 2022.

And I don't know how Trump's fuckery will pan out, unless what we're seeing with the ICE raids is part of a plan for Rent-A-Con Prison Labor - and that's a definite probability.

New Thinking

This young woman should be in a policy position.

She ran for Ag Commissioner in North Carolina. She got beat, but she talks sense.

It's Slavery

The Voice Of Evolution

Playing The Opposites

Sometimes, it's not broken.

Sometimes, it's actually engineered to operate in a fucked up, inside out and upside down kinda way.

Keep It Together

There's plenty of real stuff for us to lose our shit about. It makes no sense to go out of our way chasing phantoms.

Justice Department accuses two Chinese researchers of smuggling 'potential agroterrorism weapon' into US

On The Farm

A lot of us have memories of our city-dwelling farmer grandparents with the giant gardens (filled with stuff we couldn't even name), who told us old-timey stories of making molasses and persimmon preserves, but very few of us have any real idea of how a farm actually works.

I don't anyway. I can't even do houseplants.

So it's good to get a little education from somebody who literally knows her shit.

That Farm Lady

Two things:

1. A critter like the Screw Worm is everything I need to know to conclude that if there is a god, he's real prick
2. MAGA is everything we don't need in government

A Health Influencer

BTW - when 23 million Americans aren't getting enough to eat, it's time to make some real changes.

Fuck the rich

Feed the poor

Or feed the rich to the poor

But yeah - fuck the rich