Most of what is farmed in Mississippi and the rest of the country isn’t food that goes on Americans’ tables. It is soybeans grown for animal feed, corn grown for ethanol, rice grown to export to Central America and so on. The fruits and vegetables that Mississippians eat are probably grown in California or in other countries.
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Oops! Now that we’ve perpetuated a global economic hierarchy of trade with raw agriculture products outsourced to India, it no longer makes economic sense to grow broadacre monocrops in our wealthy country.
Please, won’t someone think of the poor struggling farmers who only farm 11,000 acres with 3 people? Just the modest area of 17 square miles, 3000 times what freed slaves in Reconstruction dreamed of in order to satisfy their every need, an area that would take you 2 hours to walk from one end to the other.
There’s just no way to make that land profitable. No way at all.
What am I supposed to do with 2.2 million pounds of rice?" he asked, raising his voice to be heard over the noisy industrial fans drying the rice on his farm in Merigold, Miss. "I’m serious. What am I supposed to do?
I dunno, give it to food banks? Give it to cuba? Eat it with a large spoon?
God I hate it when the Kulaks complain as if their own incompetence isn’t to blame.
Mfw my Risk/Reward economic system landed on Risk
Better than destroying it, which is unfortunately all too common in situations like this
A “farmer” with 2.2 million pounds of rice. Sure.
This capitalist and exploiter of the marginalized publicly declares their entitlement to profits, begs for sympathy.
You would be surprised how much land a single farmer can cultivate with modern equipment nowadays. A quick Google tells me you can expect 7000lbs of rice per acre. So that’s only 305 acres of rice. That’s not a lot for a modern farm.
Farmers are workers, comrade.
Also, if you’re wondering how a worker can afford 1000+ acres of farmland, the answer is massive amounts of debt.
Farmers are workers, comrade
This strikes me as a simplistic interpretation of worker and debt. The farmer who can afford to take on large amounts of debt is quantitatively and qualitatively different from the average worker. The average worker takes on debt for the prerequisites of gainful employment (education, transportation, equipment and uniform), not capital purchase for others to work on. The former gains a wage, the second makes a profit. Yes the latter is built off a proportionally large debt, but it is debt of a different nature.
A farmer who is able to own all of that land and that equipment, even with debt, and operates it themselves with or without hired help, is by definition petit bourgeois in terms of their relation to the means of production.
Do you own something that can be taken away from you if you stop paying for it?
Class is your relationship to production, not your balance book.
When the bank owns the land and the equipment, you are not working for yourself. That’s the big lie. You are working for the bank.
That’s not “the big lie”, that’s just bigger capitalists extracting from smaller ones. Namely large finance capitalists extracting from smaller bourgeois. It is very transparent, they even write the numbers down on the contracts they sign.
This does not change the fact that class is one’s relation to production, not their balance sheet. Nearly every small business tyrant’s business is in debt. Yet they have the relation of an owner, not a worker whose labor is exploited.
This person is by definition at least petite bourgeois, same as any small business tyrant with which you may be familiar. And they are publicly squawking about their entitlement to profits as a business owner. They have received over $30k/year in subsidies as a capitalist. This is the typical “farmer” PR game.
Debt doesn’t mean they aren’t capitalist.
Only in capitalism is “food too cheap” an issue…
children are starving to death in Gaza
amerikkkan small producer farmers are the modern capitalism equivalent of when kings would pay a guy to be a hermit and live in their garden as part of the decor. they’re aesthetic set-dressing to maintain the mythologized terrain.
say the line, john!
Grapes of Wrath quote insert here
The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.
There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
Rice of Wrath
I’m pretty sure there’s a rice shortage in Japan. Good thing we have an efficient global economic system.
There’s a food shortage in Japan in general. They’re net food importers. That’s why you keep hearing about agricultural innovations happening there like factory vertical farms and such. They’re capitalist so it’s not out of the goodness of their hearts, it’s because they don’t produce enough food domestically so they have to import and innovate or it all collapses.
The rice shortage is made significantly worse by Japanese rice-based nationalism and widespread refusal to eat imported rice. They could easily import more foreign rice for cheaper than domestic rice, but of course that isn’t happening.
Something something, capitalist overproduction, imperialist decline, something something
Something something rotting oranges hosed down with kerosene, animal corpses buried and guarded, something something grapes of wrath
ankle deep on 30ft of rice
Nah bro that is a recipe for getting sucked into the rice pile and suffocating
talk about quick rice huh
Pay the ultimate rice
rice knowing you
fool me rice, shame on me
Bro, at least try to write the article yourself. Don’t just tell ChatGPT to write a random story about a sad farmer. I made less than $40 on commissions last week, still had to spend all week working though, this POS probably made more than that for less than 5 minutes of typing a prompt.
Kulak Detected.
Isn’t rice from that region relatively high in arsenic?
waiting on maga tiktok influencers to shill arsenic rice like they did with raw milk and beef tallow
gives you that trendy victorian twink look
as a bonus, the personality comes with the look
Kefkaesque :gregor-samsa-jokerfied:
God, and it’s horrifying just how duped so many people got. Even I was thinking maybe they had a point
Then again, they have the best PR people money can buy, and as we’re seeing the actual “globalists” are a lot more Based and Redpilled than previously thought.
i think the only meme diet i ever fell for was keto, but i stopped after a week because it’s so boring and strangely i was hungry all the time (though i was never low energy), also i didn’t really need to lose weight back when i tried it so i don’t even know why i did it lol
Same, gave it a spin for a few months and it was fine but boring. Get about the same results from eating more fiber tbh
yeah i would eat 10x the rice if i wasn’t in the US
The rice from cali isn’t so bad, neither is the rice from India or Vietnam and you can perhaps buy rice imported from there, but of course the good stuff is more expensive.
Nobody wrote an easy to read pamphlet about this in 1847 and called it The Communist Manifesto.
Edit: Responded to the wrong comment. 🤦♂️
everything is higher, some things just don’t get as frequent or as publicicized findings
Pretty much anywhere that historically grew cotton yeah. Enough that recommended limits are like one serving per week. Lmao I eat three servings per day 😭
But yeah cali and imported rice is mostly fine, and at least for me hasn’t been too much more expensive.
Things are not going great for American farmers. Thanks to foreign farmers normal Americans won’t starve, but these farmers might. This also screws small farmers the most, a lot of massive farming conglomerates can probably just pivot.
This will weaken the American economy, and it will completely screw over rural areas and Trump supporters, and likely undocumented immigrants as well, while leaving those darn city liberals (i.e. Trump) chilling.
I’m too lazy to read it. Is it tariffs?
India, the world’s largest producer of rice, eased export restrictions in late 2024, flooding the world with rice. Customers in Latin America, where most U.S. rice is exported, increasingly prefer the taste of varieties grown in other countries.
Genuinely it has been a godsend, I haven’t bought American style rice since basmati became cheap.
Basmati is so fuckin good.
i love how the grains stay nice and separated. makes making fried rice so much better
fr. Basmati and jasmin are so much better and I wish arborio and other short grains were as cheap.
And of course the media whines whenever something becomes more affordable and the average consumer benefits. But when labor is so affordable and abundant some people who are perfectly capable of work are written off as unemployable? No one cares. If anything they’ll frame porky as the victim because too many people want to work for him and the poor widdle guy can’t handle all the choices.
