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Something that really bothers me about any discussion relating to agriculture is how the word farmer is thrown around as if it’s clear who they’re referring to. Like, the farmers, I believe are actually the owners, right? And the workers are the people who actually do the farming work?
Of course the owners are resisting extra safety measures. It costs money.
Beyond propaganda, this is also the sad reality that a lot of PPE is uncomfortable as hell. I’ve never worn a comfortable pair of steel toes, face shields get fogged up in un-airconditioned warehouses, and let me tell you how nasty your hands will smell after a day of sweating into protective gloves. It fucking sucks, it’s necessary but it fucking sucks.
The media will say “farmer” and Americans conjure up an image of the yeoman farmer - the rugged, self-sufficient hard-workin’ (white) man. But this isn’t 1824. At best, the typical farmer (really, “farm owner” is more appropriate) is pretty involved in the business aspect and may even be out there regularly in the crops and checking out things. But still, most of the work is done by poorly paid workers - the overwhelming majority are undocumented. And at worst, the farm owner just lives in a sprawling farmhouse and does nothing other than cut a check to a management company (who still just hires mainly undocumented workers).
I don’t actually want this happen because it hurts workers, but I almost would like to see racist chuds get their wish and have every undocumented worker deported. That would create an economic collapse that would make the 2009 financial crisis look like a balloon party. This country would starve as the ag industry would collapse overnight.
don’t actually want this happen because it hurts workers, but I almost would like to see racist chuds get their wish and have every undocumented worker deported. That would create an economic collapse that would make the 2009 financial crisis look like a balloon party. This country would starve as the ag industry would collapse overnight.
there have been state-level crackdowns that caused problems like this but the hogs can’t look at that and stop being racist for ten minutes
Something that really bothers me about any discussion relating to agriculture is how the word farmer is thrown around as if it’s clear who they’re referring to. Like, the farmers, I believe are actually the owners, right? And the workers are the people who actually do the farming work?
Farmers resist…
Public health is now is the government politely asking businesses to the right thing, the businesses saying no, and then government pretending everything is fine.
it’s cool the government is standing by happily with billions in bail out money for them after h2h transmissible H1N1 wipes out 20% of the population
I hate they you can own a thousand acres of land and employ other people to work it and call yourself a “farmer”
That’s intentional. They’re trying to obscure the line between seasonal farmhand slaves and millionaire capitalists who own hundreds of acres of land so that readers have more sympathy for the latter.
Surgeons refuse to wash hands before surgery
The west declines not in a grand epic battle against the rising socialism but because it can no longer get its population to vaccinate and perform basic protective measures against an increasing number of serious diseases. Its population becomes weak, disabled, burdened, and productive output can not be maintained. It simply fizzles out underneath its own inability to exert authority for any purpose other than to put boots on necks.
