It’s two very different things, agribusiness and actual farmers. Agribusiness is the source of a lot of suffering in the world, and no small part of it gets heaped directly on the farmers who actually make the food which they monopolize and sell. I actually think a lot of your comment is extremely accurate when applied to agribusiness.
You didn’t say agribusiness, though, you said farmers. And you brought up a comparison of farmers’ complaints about failing harvests to agribusiness’s complaints about regulation or subsidies. I don’t think it’s sensible to minimize complaints about failing harvests and I don’t think the comparison you made between the two things was reasonable.
Does that seem fair? If I’ve misunderstood something then you can always clarify, but I reread it and my reaction is exactly the same the second time around. What did you mean; who are some examples of some of these farmers who always complain? When you talk about wanting guaranteed prices, for example, I instantly think of people wanting to be able to paid a sustainable rate for the food they grow, instead of a barely-subsistence rate with the conglomerate that buys their produce keeping 110% of the profit and exposing them to the full brunt of the marketplace risk. Seems pretty reasonable to me. No?
What did you mean, then?
It’s two very different things, agribusiness and actual farmers. Agribusiness is the source of a lot of suffering in the world, and no small part of it gets heaped directly on the farmers who actually make the food which they monopolize and sell. I actually think a lot of your comment is extremely accurate when applied to agribusiness.
You didn’t say agribusiness, though, you said farmers. And you brought up a comparison of farmers’ complaints about failing harvests to agribusiness’s complaints about regulation or subsidies. I don’t think it’s sensible to minimize complaints about failing harvests and I don’t think the comparison you made between the two things was reasonable.
Does that seem fair? If I’ve misunderstood something then you can always clarify, but I reread it and my reaction is exactly the same the second time around. What did you mean; who are some examples of some of these farmers who always complain? When you talk about wanting guaranteed prices, for example, I instantly think of people wanting to be able to paid a sustainable rate for the food they grow, instead of a barely-subsistence rate with the conglomerate that buys their produce keeping 110% of the profit and exposing them to the full brunt of the marketplace risk. Seems pretty reasonable to me. No?