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I read your article and well, it is bullshit. You are basing your utopia resulting from the farming laws on the claims of those who pushed them - without consultation, without democratic debate.
Your writing convinces me you have no first hand understanding of farming.
Thread https://twitter.com/dhume/status/1357407687777091584
Your writing convinces me you have no first hand understanding of farming.
Thread https://twitter.com/dhume/status/1357407687777091584
1. Your whole article is premised on the fact that people who actually farm for a living don't understand their own needs as well as you understand them. This has absolutely no foundation in competence.
2. You don't seem to care about the process of democratic lawmaking being set aside altogether. The farmers are stakeholders. These laws are the equivalent of a govt passing laws altering how op-ed jockeys can earn - without care that it rules out current ways you get an income.
3. Imagine the outrage if the fates of all the elites earning from their opinions suddenly got tied to the whims of entities they don't trust? And nope, you weren't consulted, you didn't get a chance to object, and parliamentary debate was basically a farce.
4. You have expressed great belief that the farm laws will improve conditions, without explaining how you arrived at that conclusion beyond "I believe it, they say nice things"
5. If there actually is a reasoning for why the farm laws would work, why wasn't it presented?
5. If there actually is a reasoning for why the farm laws would work, why wasn't it presented?
6. Even if the farm laws would actually work, the farmers, the representatives of the citizens are ENTITLED TO DUE PROCESS. Consultations, parliamentary debate. Even if the laws spread perfumed air and rained gold on every farm, the farmers have a RIGHT to answers.
7. Finally, it basically amounts to you creating a 1000 word fog around the basic fact that you are fine with laws being imposed on people and them having no say in it AND you think those opposing it are "misguided" for insisting on democracy.
Happy to discuss the actual problems with what the laws propose, if you are first willing to educate yourself on the practical realities of farming, as opposed to whatever is claimed on paper.
There is a lot of other crap in the articles that I've basically ignored because he doesn't have the foggiest on farming and is recycling whatever he found on Twitter propaganda.
Fertilizer subsidies causing blah, ground water depletion, etc.
Fertilizer subsidies causing blah, ground water depletion, etc.
Every time there is some farm policy at stake, random "experts" who normally cover business and economy discover their inner farmer, open up power point spam and earn their daily wage as digital agricultural labourers cheering whatever the govt is peddling.
