Comments by "Meh Pluribus Unum" (@pluribus_unum) on "This Evil Company Owns ALL The Food In Your House | The Class Room ft. Second Thought" video.

4:57 - The expansion of agriculture itself was less of a problem than the type of agriculture; monoculture and huge erosion prone fields instead of traditional crop-rotation and multiple smaller, erosion resistant fields. Cargill, [like] most modern agriculture, doesn't care about living soil, however, because chemicals mean they don't need it alive.
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We learned. We elected Joe Biden, who is the most pro-union President since FDR. "...when it comes to support for organized labor, Joe Biden has been—without question—the most aggressively pro-union president since FDR died in office in 1945." - Northwest Labor Press, Feb 16, 2021
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@michimatsch5862 - He already has helped. He would've helped more, but the courts intervened. "Biden gives small meat processors $1B to support competition" "President Joe Biden announced a plan to increase competition in meat processing and ultimately lower prices for consumers by providing $1 billion in American Rescue Plan funds to help independent producers. In a statement, the president said his administration aims to help small processors compete with the four industry giants who dominate anywhere from 55% to 85% of U.S. beef, pork and poultry production." "USDA will offer grants totaling $375 million for independent processing projects, as well as funds to boost financing options for small producers, provide technical expertise, assist with inspection pressures and support worker safety and create jobs with fair wages in rural parts of the country." "This latest effort at boosting independent processors and industry competition comes after the Biden administration announced plans last September to crack down on alleged meat price fixing among large meat processors." ... "The program, included in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) signed by U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday, follows an earlier debt relief program that provided aid based on race but ended in a web of litigation after white farmers sued to stop payments." "The new program, which makes farmers eligible for relief based on economic precariousness rather than race, is likely to end that litigation and free up resources allowing the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to help farmers - including those of color - avoid foreclosure."
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@harrylane4 - Nearly half of Democratic voters are moderates, so we have to make the progress we can. While we push for more, Biden is nothing to lament, as a progressive, in my estimation.
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@Preetzole - That's actually a fallacy. I would like a multi-party system and a coalition based legislature too. But I'm not going to leave the tools at our disposal [on] the table while I push for that either. "The Republican Party leans much farther right than most traditional conservative parties in Western Europe and Canada, according to an analysis of their election manifestos. It is more extreme than Britain’s Independence Party and France’s National Rally (formerly the National Front), which some consider far-right populist parties. The Democratic Party, in contrast, is positioned closer to mainstream liberal parties." - The Manifesto Project, 2019 version (the Democratic party has moved slightly left since)
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@freelance_commie - I cited independent research group findings, and the union/labor press, not WH releases. You go on with your pre-conceived notions undeterred by data analysis and the unions speaking for themselves.
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@Big1nz - I'm citing Pew, not my notions. Rationalize as you see fit.
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@jhenrypaul - I mentioned the ending of crop rotation when I highlighted the problem, and didn't singularly blame monoculture. Still, the most widespread bad growing practices are all centered around a maximized profit, chemical dependent system of mass monoculture. That people are using 'monoculture' as a shorthand for the maximum profit, zero environmental concern bad growing practices isn't surprising because it is overwhelmingly the most common form of monoculture practiced in modern agriculture.
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@freelance_commie - Keep your precious bias as long as you like. But all I said is true.
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@jhenrypaul - It depends on where and how far back you want to go whether monoculture is common practice. "The global history of monoculture is a centuries-long stumble with its origins in the sugar plantations of the Caribbean as far back as the 17th century,” explains Professor Uekötter. “The traditional methods of subsistence farming were more diverse and ecologically sound, but export to Europe driven by money and profits bolstered by cheap slave labour provided the starting point for the world to wander through a catalogue of labour conflicts, soil exhaustion, fertility issues and meteorological threats.”"
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Wasatch Philmwurx - He is for unions. You just don't like him.
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Wasatch Philmwurx - Did you seriously not know the economic records of the last ten presidents?
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@RobinHerzig - Nearly half of Democratic voters oppose most progressive policy positions. So far, this is holding true even in ranked choice voting elections. That's not someone calling the shots on them. Moderates (38%) and Conservative Democrats (11%) make up 49% of Democratic voters. Liberals (32%) and Progressive Liberals¹ (15%) make up 47% of Democratic voters. _________________________________________ ¹ aka, Pogressives
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@porkhill6665 - Beliefs founded in inflammatory conspiracy theories like yours are often the symptom of a festering, unexamined -- and more personally resonant -- issue. Who or what haunts you about malice, child abuse, our children in general?
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@kaycoats8344 - You love the right-wing "solutions" that produce recessions and huge deficits. I don't. "The last three Republican presidencies ended in economic turmoil. And their Democratic successors had to clean up the mess."
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@tisenhow - Your insurgency is flailing, insurrectionist troll.
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Wasatch Philmwurx - Republicans run deficits. Democrats reduce.deficits. History has proven it.
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Wasatch Philmwurx - Trust fund baby wants to hide their inherited wealth from taxes, so they believe common myths about the political parties. How droll.
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@Gentlebreeze397 - You not knoWing what asylum seekers are is just the tip of the iceberg of your problems.
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