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"Farming life is better than city life." - citation needed. Farming life is long, hard, and expensive. The difficulty in even running a small farm, never mind
by 0ct4via 3y ago
"Farming life is better than city life." - citation needed.
Farming life is long, hard, and expensive. The difficulty in even running a small farm, never mind something larger - and that's ignoring being priced out by huge corporations buying out land and farms - is significant.
That's not even touching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers%27_suicides_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers%27_suicides_in_the_Uni... which - if you knew anything about "farming life" - you'd know is a significant and long-standing issue in the farming community.
Spend most of your days doing physically taxing labor (even with machines to help), and still be at the mercy of weather or pests (for crops), and markets / health scares (for animals), having little access to healthcare, mental health support or financial support, and then come tell me how much "better" it is.
Farming life is more than just fresh air and being less densely-populated. Saying it's "better" when farmers have some of the highest suicide rates, issues with mental health, and levels of poverty and income disparity - never mind the significantly higher risk of death or serious injury from machinery or livestock - is totally inaccurate and incredibly disingenuous.