Do you think the World's Farmers are taken for granted or are they given too many economic concessions by government?
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PrairieWind
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No the government pays them well not to grow too many crops. Hunaer in the world and they pay farmers not to grow food. Some government.
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Taken for granted, exploited, and abused by government. I used to have pretty ignorant views regarding people who farmed. Then one day, I was introduced to just how important they are. They're like bees. Without them, we're all f--ked.
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I can tell you that local dairy farmers in my state are getting tagged and bagged. Local dairy farms are getting rock bottom prices for their product, which now costs them twice as much to produce as they can sell it for. Subsidies are being cut causing many small farmers to close up shop and sell the land to survive. The only ones that are making profits are the giants. That'll only hurt us in the future. We once had a few thousand farms in my state; we're now down to just under 400. :-(
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Oh, they're given waaaaay too many economic concessions by government. I mean, all you have to do is look at the fact that all the farmers in this country live in multi-million dollar mansion, drive Rolls Royces and vacation on the French Riviera several times a year. Unlike our poor, underpaid, overworked, overlooked and marginalized CEOs, such hardworking, demonized, underappreciated specimens such as the world will never know and what do we ever do for them?
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Taken for granted, abused, misused, and ignored after election day. Thems the ones who shouldn't be paying taxes.
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yes.
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Taken for granted. Everything concerning them is not perfect but if they stopped growing our foods many of us would come close to starvation. My parents always had a garden and a field of food growing and it takes a lot of work, money, time.
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It depends on which farmers you talk about. The huge factory farms are killing off our environments while they pollute without any regulation and they take advantage of their suppliers or small operators like chicken farmers who don't even own the chickens they raise. They let the chicken manure run directly into rivers and into oceans where they create dead zones and get HUGE tax breaks while small farms are taken advantage of and abused, neglected and treated like slime. I think it vastly depends on what kind of steward they are of our environments vs what they produce. The huge factory farms i have zero sympathy for, but family farms are given the shaft BIG time.
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