This sounds like victim blaming.

When other businesses can't hack it, we let them go bankrupt and do something more productive. Why do farmers get treated any differently?

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mjh2539 a day ago | parent | next [-]

Because it's in the national interest to not let them go bankrupt (because without food you die).

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pfdietz a day ago | parent [-]

This is scaremongering. Oh noez, we'll all die unless this group gets a bailout from Uncle Sugar.

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_DeadFred_ a day ago | parent [-]

That sounds like the anti-vax argument that's so used to having the thing they forget the realities.

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pfdietz 20 hours ago | parent [-]

The difference being that viruses exist, and the scenario in question with food is ridiculous nonsense.

	▲	Jensson 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> The difference being that viruses exist, and the scenario in question with food is ridiculous nonsense. Its not, famines are a real thing and many people die from them. They only way money can prevent famines is by making farmers grow more food last year. So its just as important to pay farmers with government money to keep growing food as it is to pay hospitals to keep treating people.

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9rx a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Do we? What we saw in 2020 and 2008 suggests otherwise.

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ndsipa_pomu a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Countries don't want to be too reliant on food imports if/when they go to war with their neighbours

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xwolfi a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Sometimes "victims" have been looking for some consequences for quite a while. Poke a bear long enough to be hurt, don't be surprised people blame you, "the victim".