Farmers Speak Out as USDA Cancels $1 Billion in Funding That Let Schools, Food Banks Buy Local Food.
Farmers Speak Out as USDA Cancels $1 Billion in Funding That Let Schools, Food Banks Buy Local Food.
Farmers are speaking out after the USDA's decision to terminate programs that helped schools, food banks and tribes buy fresh food.
Canceled contracts leave a gaping hole in local food systems
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Lot of rural Trump voters who are farmers as well. The only people really losing here are the lower classes: farmers, people working these programs, children, and the people who rely on these programs.
What kind of fucking psycho wants this Soviet-esque bullshit when the money and food are already right there and available?
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Money spent putting food on your child's plate is money that's not in my pocket.
I would assume the real reasoning is along these lines but I imagine there's also some kind of waste reduction throw away reasoning meant to give the rubes enough cover to pretend it's not morally reprehensible behavior.
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More Amazon Prime subscriptions are needed, not food for your children!
-- Trump, with Jeff Bezos at his side when Prime subscriptions slow down.
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This is the real angle. Privatizing food and water. They're already setting up all the steps to make this happen.
They're going to bankrupt farms so billionaires can buy them, then sell it back to you for profit.
They've already decimating water system protections, so if you want unpolluted water, guess where you need to go?
It's like Nestle on a completely different level. Maybe this is the "4D Chess" all his idiot followers have been clamoring about.
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More people need to understand scale. It's bad enough people don't understand the difference between a million and a billion, but hardly anyone truly understands a trillion. The US budget is 7 trillion. This is going to save 0.00014% of the budget.
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