Post AIBnBeAdL28PW1AzGi by Moon@shitposter.club
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 (DIR) Post #AIBmegLyCYh4jGlBA0 by Moon@shitposter.club
       2022-04-07T00:27:35.908752Z
       
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       @simsa04 Please enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWv29KRsQXU
       
 (DIR) Post #AIBnBdf5EKthwAPn5k by simsa04@gnusocial.net
       2022-04-07T00:32:18Z
       
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       Ever worked on a farm? Or in agricultural business? Ever did claw trimming? Anything?
       
 (DIR) Post #AIBnBeAdL28PW1AzGi by Moon@shitposter.club
       2022-04-07T00:33:32.403721Z
       
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       @simsa04 Yeah I lived on a farm.
       
 (DIR) Post #AIBnNFF5qVv3g3nCXg by Moon@shitposter.club
       2022-04-07T00:35:39.159988Z
       
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       @simsa04 specifically poultry although we rented our land for corn
       
 (DIR) Post #AIBoacfw8N0S4XI7eq by simsa04@gnusocial.net
       2022-04-07T00:43:53Z
       
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       Good. From your comments in the your original thread I wasn't sure that there was much experience.
       
 (DIR) Post #AIBoadTDBAQCXMLTSi by Moon@shitposter.club
       2022-04-07T00:49:09.182922Z
       
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       @simsa04 tbh tbh living on one as a child/teenager  doesn't give deep insight into the politics, so you're not off.
       
 (DIR) Post #AIBs68i1NpoqGJzDEW by simsa04@gnusocial.net
       2022-04-07T01:23:44Z
       
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       This may be true, but I sensed a kind of nastiness in my comments and so I wanted to retrieve it in order not to let that enter the thread. Also I should have earlier paid more attention to the differences between the U.S. market and the European markets.What got me a bit stirred was your root claim, that, at least to me, seemed to ignore the impact of retail and supermarket chains, aka the middlemen, on pricing and the viability of the family farm model.  As retail pays lowest prices, it forces farmers to reduce production costs and yield standardized products. That means mega-farms, big tech, the ability to pay for proprietary software in machinery (from which John Deere makes most of its money), more machinery because wage costs are too high, etc.And that has little to do with policies that serve agriculture corporations, seed producers, monopolies (& patent) on seed-fertilizer-insecticide/fungicide-packages. But it's a factor that squeezes family farms out of business.
       
 (DIR) Post #AIBtC8LnjF7OqI0zvU by Moon@shitposter.club
       2022-04-07T01:40:52.538562Z
       
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       @simsa04 It's alright I'm a blowhard, I admit it. There was a little discussion on your point although I still tied it back to FDA food standards, it's true that places like Wal-Mart squeeze so hard that small farms can't compete.