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Crops are not capable of suffering. Another publication that spreads the idea that inanimate things can suffer, while the true suffering is experienced by worke
by coliveira 9y ago
Crops are not capable of suffering. Another publication that spreads the idea that inanimate things can suffer, while the true suffering is experienced by workers.
- tsomctl 9y agoSuffer, intransitive verb, definition 2: to sustain loss or damage. (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/suffer https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/suffer)
- coliveira 9y agoThis only shows that the practice is widespread, not that I should go around saying that things suffer, when in fact they cannot do that. This is especially insensitive in a context when there is real human suffering.
- dmritard96 9y agoI pedantic point, but I think crops probably qualify as animate.
- rejschaap 9y agoIt is just the hn title that is terrible. The article has the following title "California Crops Rot as Immigration Crackdown Creates Farmworker Shortage". Somehow the hn title manages to put the blame with the Mexicans.