40% of the labor force used to be farm labor
was that a good thing? The good old days.
today a combine comes out once a year and harvests a complete cornfield in a day and is gone
A deal between the nation’s top two pork packing companies signals the future of American agriculture - do away with the farmer by doing away with competitive markets.
``I must give him his due. He has considerably cretinized me.'' Lautréamont
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