GOP Farm Bill Blueprint 'Puts Big Ag's Profits Over Everyone Else'
GOP Farm Bill Blueprint 'Puts Big Ag's Profits Over Everyone Else'
"America's farmers and consumers need forward-looking policies that build a sustainable, resilient, and fair food system," said one campaigner.
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Based on the subsidies we pay out to farmers year after year it doesn't seem like anything is changing.
It has been for a while though - family farms used to be the recipients of this fund for a mix of reasons involving economic stability and political kickbacks... it was highly controversial with non-farmers but at least that money was going into a section of the economy that would enthusiastically spend that money driving some additional economic growth. In the modern farm landscape this money just goes to line corporate pockets and drive useless wealth inequality growing stock buybacks.
Farmers have been getting special payments all my life. I wouldn’t mind if it was spread around to the rest of us. But we need billionaires, so fuck you and me.
My whole life too brother. I don't think it's going to end so I may just start a farm, knowing my luck that will be the year farm subsidies actually die though.
Unless you start a massive corporate farm you will never get a piece of this pie. Don't for one second think that small family farms will get anything out of GOP legislation.
To hear the apologists for rural areas having more rights than everyone else, the rural folk only grow everyone's food for altruistic reasons, and we should all be thanking them for their service...