Really Interesting Reality Check About Farming For All Us City- And Suburbs-Slickers http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2018/09/really-interest.html … @SarahTaber_bww via @Overlawyered
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FWIW, I live on a farm, I disagree w her about many things, and she blocked me instead of responding to a tweet where I pointed out that she was wrong about something
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her tone is also obnoxious AF "The farm families that put on their big boy pants..." She's just made business decisions and access to capital into a MORAL issue. Some farmers thought to build slaughterhouses? "adult" Others didn't? "child-like" why?
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https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/1026198517558206464 … "more than the bare minimum" She's saying that people who spend 60 hours a week working but didn't have the foresight, or cash to do X - or didn't choose to do X - are lazy slackers.
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This is a data-free assertion. What we need to see is a chart showing farm size vs frequency. The reality is that there's a bimodal distribution. There ARE huge farms and tons of small ones. https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/1026198519856750592 …
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...and the fact that a large farm corporation is owned by one family is a nit-pick; it's like saying that Wal-Mart is a family hardware store because one family has a controlling share of stock.
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GP I briefly perused the thread and the notion that Cargill is a family farm is laughable. It is a privately held mega-conglomerate.
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Right?
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Her thread is a good corrective to a very typical special-pleading that you see: family farms that want the best of both worlds: to be treated like businesses, but also to get special handouts because "apply pie / American flag / muh family farm". ...but she overstates her pt
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GP I don't know how anyone can farm without getting paid not to farm, getting subsidies for hard crops, getting subsidized insurance, and getting paid not to let your land wash away.
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