In interviews with the Washington Post, multiple farmers expressed their dismay with the loss of farm workers under Donald Trump's harsh immigration policies and his administration's waffling on subsidies.In a deep dive focusing on one farmer who voted for Trump, 36-year-old J.J. Ficke of Kirk, Colo...
    • ThePantser@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      5 days ago

      It’s not inflation if that is actually how much it always should have cost. Our food is too cheap and full of shit.

    • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.socialEnglish
      8·
      5 days ago

      That would be unpleasant, yes, and would require further efforts to minimize the consequences for those with low incomes (for instance, expansion of food subsidies, which yes would require even more taxation of those with wealth), however, if food prices aren’t as high as that now because of near slavery conditions, then there’s probably no ethical way to avoid it.

      • MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        5 days ago

        EXPANSION of food subsidies? They just gutted USDA programs providing food to food shelves all over the country. My local food bank recently switched to every two weeks instead of every week. It’s already bad and only getting worse

        • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.socialEnglish
          6·
          5 days ago

          You may misunderstand, I’m not making any prediction that this administration or any like what we’ve had in a long time, if ever, would do such a thing. What I’m saying is that if some government was installed that actually cared, it’s not an impossibly to improve agricultural labor conditions without driving the working class broke from food cost increases.