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What's the over/under that Arkansas farmers actually learn from this and stop voting Republican?
Zero, that level of rational thought makes them understand how fucked they are, at which point they kill themselves. Or sell the farm to a megacorp while they're still above water on their loans
And I'm not joking about the suicide thing. There's suicide hotline programs specifically for farmers realizing they're going to lose everything, which of course have been cut
In the 00s my uncle was in a position where Monsanto was suing him for not holding up his end of the contract, because he had a bad crop year. Anyway, my grandparents bailed him out by financing a lawyer who settled for him, and it really didn't fix the problem at all. He still lost his farm, my grandparents were no longer wealthy because they kept trying to help him, and the uncle died a couple years later to cancer (probably driven by stress). They bailed him out because they were afraid he'd kill himself over the farm, and it took him out anyway
Damn, that's rough. Monsanto are fucking demons, honestly? Solid chance they were making him use some product that causes cancer. Either way, the whole industry is horrible, sorry your family went through that
Hmm. Seems possibly related.
Very sorry to hear about your uncle.
I have no idea if he used protective gear when applying it, which certainly could have increased his exposure. I would love to blame Monsanto, but most of the family carry the risk genes for this cancer too, and as yet his children are cancer free. Their babies though, not so much
Fuck :/
Yeah... I would also love to blame Monsanto but from what I understand it's basically impossible to definitively say what caused someone's cancer specifically.
It's just the first instinct when I hear their name and "cancer" in the same sentence.
One thing we can be sure of is cancer sucks and anything we can do as a species to understand it better is more than worth the effort.
Never gonna happen
Anyone remember things like Farm Aid in the 80s?
I think they'll learn SWEET FUCK ALL.