The metropolitan elite has ignored farmers for too long | It’s time for political leaders to balance reducing carbon emissions with maintaining cheap food production

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The attack on farmers has nothing to do with the environment or global warming, and everything to do with destroying the family farm as a way of life. They want big ag to control our food, full stop, because big ag is part of government in a fascist state, and that puts our food fully in control of the fascists. Vote the wrong way? No food for you! Protest the latest imperial war/genocide? No food for you! Small farmers stand in the way of this level of control, because they identify with the working classes and not with our fascist owners.

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The media rarely portrays any of this. Films about poverty tend to have gritty urban backdrops, not rolling hills. The only documentary I’ve seen that truly exposed the reality in England was Molly Dineen’s The Lie of The Land, which opened my eyes to the brutality of what I had imagined to be a romantic bucolic life. A third of agricultural land in England is farmed by tenant farmers whose leases can be terminated at short notice.

This is probably the best we can expect from the MSM.

It's been endlessly trying to portray farmers as evil. In reality, the farmers and urban working class have more in common with each other.