Canceled contracts leave a gaping hole in local food systems

  • krashmo@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    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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      20 hours ago

      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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        20 hours ago

        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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      17 hours ago

      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.