The truth is that when this nation chose to eliminate four million farmers (with their families, hired help, buildings, and boundaries) on the advice of the colleges of agriculture, the agricultural bureaucracy, and the agribusiness corporations, it committed a sort of cultural genocide.
  • PowerCrazy@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    5 months ago

    American farmers are in no way working class

    Change farmers to “farm-owners” and you are correct. But not because of this:

    Even the median small farm owner has upwards of a million dollars in assets