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A Republican Farmer Relies on Immigrant Work. He Sees His Party Erasing It. (www.nytimes.com)

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For 20 years, Tim O’Harrow has asked lawmakers to acknowledge that America’s food supply depends on immigrants. Politics went in the other direction.

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[–] thinkercharmercoderfarmer@slrpnk.net 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

and government handouts. If the government will bail you out no matter how badly you fuck up, it's pretty easy to ignore shitty policies.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

A key problem here is that capitalism creates a boom and bust cycle, where with agriculture that means feast and famine. And famine is really undesirable. So we had a set of policies designed to ensure constant overproduction of food, with support for the farmers to make that possible.

We are of course facing a global food shortage come fall due to the fertilizer stranded during planting season by the Iran war, and the new policy is to burn as much food as possible.