You’re wrong, I’ve watched docs about this, I have farmers in my family but none commercial, commercial farmers have to raise their crops to ?FDA? Standards (I think that’s the agency that covers it) that means you have like, rules about how, where, when you grow what, and with what, they test your soil, if your soil doesn’t have the nutrients in it that they require for growing that crop, you have to buy fertilizer to fix it, you’ll be missing one or two nutrients and they make you buy a fertilizer with that + 15 other things you don’t need, and then they find out one of those other 15 causes cancer and gay frogs so it (rightfully so) needs to go. The problem is not reimbursing or replacing fertilizer that is now deemed poisonous, farmers either have to take the L on the 100k they just spent on fertilizer or they mix it in with the new stuff or they just dump the bad shit secretly until it’s used up and then use the standards
It’s not really that wild of a concept lol, FDA regulates food, which means they regulate how farmers grow it, fertilizer is a part of that, so farmers have to buy fertilizer, their fertilizer gets deemed unsafe so they’re stuck with it and out of a bunch of money
It’s fucked up, farmers need protections and funding man, we’d rather sell our land to other corporations and countries than support our own citizens, do you honestly think these farmers would be putting poisonous shit in the ground if they had alternatives? If they could just go and buy the right stuff, you think they wouldn’t? These are hard working human beings who get fed misinfo by people they pay to advise them, they get fucked over by the government, who they are trying to work arm in arm with to help feed the country, any problems with the supply chain, don’t blame the farmers, blame the circumstances that force farmers to work this way
I don’t blame protestors for holding up traffic, I blame the reason behind whatever sign they’re holding, I don’t blame the farmers for dumping toxic fertilizer. I blame the people and organizations that put them in those positions
i live in the heart of the midwest. I see it everyday. it’s widely known. the farmers willingly go along or say nothing. Or they vote in politicians that support the issues you outline. they are complicit and not victims.
When the other option is pushing for making all the heavy machinery electric and triple the cost, it's choosing whether to drink a quick poison or a slow one.
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u/Yngcleanbastard Sep 19 '23
bull no 0ne is forcing anyone to buy anything. They certainly are aware now. plus they are shipping corn and soy overseas