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[-] MercuryUprising@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Farmers as being described here are not some podunk hillbillies living off the land. These are massive corporate entities who have cannibalized their competition over the last 60 years. They don't toil in the fields, their hordes of underpaid Southeast Asian and African immigrants do that for them, while they drive around in Land Rovers.

This is not something done out of necessity, this is done out of keeping their profit margins as high as possible.

[-] cheeseblintzes@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Im just going to step up and point out that I am not a podunk hillbilly living off the land. I am a well educated human being that left the city during the pandemic to keep all my food as local as possible (read: from my yard or my neighbors). I also sell at a farmstand on my own property, as well as donate to food pantries in my current area, the pantry for the neighborhood that raised me which is a food desert, and to my religiously affiliated (not a christian by any stretch, by the way) pantry.

That said, I am not a European and maybe you have farmers/homesteaders out there that are like that-- but I kindly request you do not lump all of us into such a shit category.

It's not nice to make assumptions about a large group of people-- history has taught us that time and time again.

On the massive corporate farms, however... no matter where-- you're 100% correct.

[-] MercuryUprising@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but I specifically mentioned "farmers as being described here." I'm obviously not referring to small farmers, but corporate entities. I was pretty explicit about that I'd say.

[-] Kaldo@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Unless you are "intentionally keeping the land dry for better yields and easier access with heavy machinery" or have "hordes of underpaid immigrants working for you" I don't think you should feel called our or lumped together with them in this characterization 😋

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