Lemmy.one
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
cm0002@lemmy.world to United States | News & Politics@midwest.social · 6 months ago

‘Farmageddon’: Many US farmers are warning they are at a breaking point

edition.cnn.com

external-link
message-square
11
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • usa@lemmy.ml
24
external-link

‘Farmageddon’: Many US farmers are warning they are at a breaking point

edition.cnn.com

cm0002@lemmy.world to United States | News & Politics@midwest.social · 6 months ago
message-square
11
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • usa@lemmy.ml
  • Maeve@kbin.earth
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    6 months ago

    Stupidest thing I read today. Hunger and homelessness will skyrocket. But hey, mass incarceration is legal slavery, so who cares?!

    • Ascrod@midwest.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      6 months ago

      Farm owners are incredibly wealthy. They’ll make the rest of us starve before they even come close. They aren’t working class like the workers that they, indeed, enslave.

      • Maeve@kbin.earth
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        6 months ago

        No, most that aren’t corporate owned are not. Some may be comfortably secure but most are not. Source: I live in farm country.

        • Ascrod@midwest.social
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          5
          ·
          6 months ago

          Do you think those big corporate ones will buy out the little guys as they start going under?

          • Maeve@kbin.earth
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            3
            ·
            6 months ago

            How does that change the material reality of the working poor who can’t afford food?

            • Ascrod@midwest.social
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              5
              ·
              6 months ago

              Just further concentrates the wealth and throws more people into the “can’t afford food” pool. I’m not disagreeing with you.

              • Maeve@kbin.earth
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                4
                ·
                6 months ago

                I hope the small farmers at least could sell to neighbors who have managed to save or inherit some savings. As it is, they may be forced to sell to conglomerates. Plus real estate law gets crazy.

                https://courtroomproven.com/faqs/how-far-above-and-below-the-ground-do-my-property-rights-extend/

United States | News & Politics@midwest.social

usa@midwest.social

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !usa@midwest.social

Welcome to !usa@midwest.social, where you can share and converse about the different things happening all over/about the United States.

If you’re interested in participating, please subscribe.

Rules

Be respectful and civil. No racism/bigotry/hateful speech.

No memes/pics of text

Post news related to the United States.

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 120 users / day
  • 720 users / week
  • 2.03K users / month
  • 9.32K users / 6 months
  • 82 local subscribers
  • 3.9K subscribers
  • 11.7K Posts
  • 52.6K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • simsym@midwest.social
  • Type 1 [Missouri]@midwest.social
  • exposingfash@midwest.social
  • BE: 0.19.7
  • Modlog
  • Legal
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org