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...
    • hark@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      8 days ago

      If only the parasitic middlemen were willing to reduce their ridiculous profit margins…

      • Tja@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        8 days ago

        Nowadays you can circumvent middlemen in a lot of cases (if you live in the center of a big metropolis probably not, but the you -need the middlemen). Farmers market, bulk orders or weekly markets are all decent options.