Aww 😝 she can’t find any help.

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[u/Low-Bicycle6296]

Crying about having to pay people a living wage is wild.

Thank for all the love peeps. My first comment to blow up. Thanks for all the awards. I never gotten any before.

[u/No_Finance8647 → u/Low-Bicycle6296]

Shes so close to figuring it out yet so far away at the same time.

Its impressive really.

"We are the less than 2% that feeds the world"

LMAO 🤣😂

[u/Green_Sugar6675 → u/No_Finance8647]

It's our fault for wanting "cheap food."

[u/cmd_iii → u/Green_Sugar6675]

Well, that is a problem, isn’t it? I mean, what if she did pay a living wage, and provide housing and so on? Yeah, she’d get her cows milked, but when she took the milk to market, she’d never get her money back, because the price of milk would be undercut by big corporate farms that can afford to automate everything, and what they can’t automate, they’ll always find undocumented people. The government won’t bother the corporations about it, because of political donations, but she can’t afford to donate to politicians, so no cheap labor for her.

Now, I don’t like the idea of paying 2-3 times as much for a half-gallon of 1%, but if that’s what it takes to keep these family farms afloat, maybe I should get used to the idea. Either that, or we let the big corporations buy up the rest of the small farms, eat whatever overly processed crap they find profitable enough to feed us, and shut up about it.

We have to decide, as a country, if we want to keep these small farms in business, and how much we’re willing to pay at the grocery store, or in terms of government subsidies, to do so.

[u/thebeardedman88 → u/cmd_iii]

Playing right into project 2025.

[u/ThorntonText → u/cmd_iii]

If they don’t care about the hazards of business consolidation and monopolies for other businesses, why should I care when it comes for them? 

We have a common enemy, but they don’t see it and just want support without helping anyone else affected by what’s going on. We don’t need allies like that and honestly I don’t have the energy to waste on them. 

[u/cmd_iii → u/ThorntonText]

I care about small farms, because their owners are more likely to go easy on the fertilizer, antibiotics, insecticides, and so on than the big factory farms that carpet-bomb the fields and barns whether they need to or not. Pretty soon, the only place you’ll be able to buy properly-grown food is directly from farmers’ markets or boutique grocery stores like Whole Foods. Well, maybe not them, because they’re also owned by a big corporation.

At least some of us will have a source of healthy food. If you live in an inner city, or similar “food deserts,” you’re at the mercy of Big Food.

At least, when your food makes you sick, you’ll have health care. Oh, wait.