(11-12-2024, 06:51 PM)HURRICANE!!! Wrote:

(11-12-2024, 05:41 PM)Jag149 Wrote: The farmers I know have college degrees in agriculture and think if you have an issue with them, just don't eat their food. Maybe you should grow your own or perhaps survive feasting on the morning dew?

Do these guys work grueling hours, milking cows and picking crop?   People on here make it sounds like everyone is breaking their balls from 5am through 8pm in the fields the way old school farmers used to work.  In the meantime, you tell me the farmers you know have college degrees.   If they have college degrees, I assume they are not milking cows and picking crop but rather using their skills to live a white collar style of life getting laborers to do their work.  BUT, we are subsidizing their lifestyle with billions of taxpayer dollars.   Did we also pay their tuition via the student debt forgiveness plan?    DANG, I should have been a farmer ....

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I just wish we had designations showing which products came from subsidized farmers (by the taxpayers) and which products came from legit farmers that don't rely on our taxpayer dollars.

You assume wrong, at least for the ones I know. First they paid their own way through college. I have visited them many times over the years. Basically up at dawn and done between 5-6 pm. When they leave their farm they have to make arrangements for the animals which are a 7 day responsibility. They have the risk of the weather and it's affect on crops.  While they do use machinery, no hoeing, hand picking or cow milking on a large basis. It is actually a grueling living. Now I am sure there are situations like you speak about but you definition is too broad brushed. Probably on corporate farms you may find this. Try that morning dew thing, I hear a Panda lives off it. He is a kung Foo expert ...

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