American farmers are having a tough year, in no small part because of President Donald Trump’s trade war. Now, the White House is gearing up to extend them a multi-billion-dollar bailout, sources tell CNN.
See, farming massive fields is pretty easy with technology, and with petrochemical fertilizer you can grow in depleted soil. So is keeping livestock, more so if you keep them in cruel conditions
So there’s a problem there… And I don’t mean the environmental issues. It’s too cheap. Farmers would have to sell at a loss
We produce so much food that the farms would all go out of business without intervention.
But the government can’t set quotas or control access to the market… That’s socialism or something
Instead, the government pays farmers to burn portion of their crop, we put ethanol in gasoline (even though it’s a bad idea), the government siezes some of the crop to stockpile and maybe sell (and give you whatever cut they like), we used to ship tons of food overseas through USAID, and so much more
Industrial farming does not play nice with capitalism.
It was always for farmers… Capitalism is really bad at sustaining farm output
Capitalism dictates that we only grow food for profit. When it stops being profitable to grow food, we don’t grow food, and then (poor) people starve.
This is not a bug; this is a feature.
Oh, no no no… It’s so much worse than even that
See, farming massive fields is pretty easy with technology, and with petrochemical fertilizer you can grow in depleted soil. So is keeping livestock, more so if you keep them in cruel conditions
So there’s a problem there… And I don’t mean the environmental issues. It’s too cheap. Farmers would have to sell at a loss
We produce so much food that the farms would all go out of business without intervention.
But the government can’t set quotas or control access to the market… That’s socialism or something
Instead, the government pays farmers to burn portion of their crop, we put ethanol in gasoline (even though it’s a bad idea), the government siezes some of the crop to stockpile and maybe sell (and give you whatever cut they like), we used to ship tons of food overseas through USAID, and so much more
Industrial farming does not play nice with capitalism.