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For 20 years, Tim O’Harrow has asked lawmakers to acknowledge that America’s food supply depends on immigrants. Politics went in the other direction.

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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

A key problem here is that capitalism creates a boom and bust cycle, where with agriculture that means feast and famine. And famine is really undesirable. So we had a set of policies designed to ensure constant overproduction of food, with support for the farmers to make that possible.

We are of course facing a global food shortage come fall due to the fertilizer stranded during planting season by the Iran war, and the new policy is to burn as much food as possible.