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1   MisdemeanorRebel   2016 Sep 23, 12:44pm  

Sure, all that phosphate running into rivers... dead soil bereft of microbes... monoculture.

NYT, always batting for big interests.

2   Dan8267   2016 Sep 23, 1:39pm  

Why Industrial Farms Are Good for the Environment

Economies of scale in agriculture is good for the environment. Allowing farm owners to needlessly pollute is not. Mass scale farming does not have to pollute.

A vast majority of the farms are family-owned. Very few, about 3 percent, are run by nonfamily corporations.

A large family-run corporation is the worst kind of corporation with nepotism driving selfishness to heights even Wall Street cannot match. Hell, look at Walmart.

First off, the family that owns the farm aren't mom-and-pop farmers. They aren't even farmers at all. The actual farmers are illegal immigrants.

Owning a farm does not make you a farmer. Farming makes you a farmer. Just like owning a car doesn't make you an automotive engineer. Building a car makes you an automotive engineer.

Second, these families are cartels and descendants of slavers who got all their wealth on the backs of slaves. They aren't ma and pa Kent and little Clark working from five a.m. until sunset. They are fat parasites sitting in comfortable mansions while strawberry pickers go through hell for two dollars an hour.

Finally, farm owners are the ultimate welfare queens getting paid literally to not work and not be productive. If they were black, the Republicans would be in uproar over all the free money farm owners, not the farmers, get. The actual farmers get nothing.

There is an unbroken continuum from the land-owning barons of the Middle Ages to the modern American farm owner. These barons never attend their own fields, which were gifted to them by other nobility. No, it's always the peasant who works and gets nothing. In the 19th century, the slaves were the peasants. Today, it's illegal immigrants and migrant workers.

You should have zero sympathy for farm owners.

3   MMR   2016 Sep 23, 2:18pm  

Dan8267 says

A large family-run corporation is the worst kind of corporation with nepotism driving selfishness to heights even Wall Street cannot match. Hell, look at Walmart.

Bailing out a large nepotistic corporation is not the same as bailing out Wall Street, because failing to bail out a nepotistic corporation as you define it, is unlikely to send shockwaves through the economy.

Family run corporations that lack competence fade over time, sometimes into oblivion due to nepotism.

Walmart, while still a strong going concern, is nowhere near what it once was when Walton was alive and getting killed by Amazon online. Other companies are more dominant now.

Wall Street will never die, unlike the corporations that trade their stock on the exchange.

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