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Not All Socialist Farms are Cults, But… (opens the original)
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Big News y’all: I was on PBS News Hour! With the inimitable Judy Woodruff, no less! It’s not every day that the national news media calls because you’re the biggest ag history nerd they could find, and they need someone to speak both to the founding farmers’ agrarian idea of the nation and about why farmers can’t make it work it anymore. If you have a few minutes, give it a watch. I’d love to hear what you think. (Then on
How Farmers Crossed the First Ever Urban-Rural Divide (opens the original)
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Last week on Farmers Rule: In the late 1800s, farmers and rural workers began the work of becoming organized people against organized money. This involved meeting, learning, and celebrating, inspiring individual self-respect and collective self-confidence. So when they faced political and economic resistance, they refused to be defeated, instead putting their faith in democracy and forming “The People’s Party,” one of the most effective third-parties in the nation’s history. We pick up the story
Farmers Rule From the Grassroots, Up (opens the original)
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Last week on Farmers Rule: The 1979 Tractorcade brought tens of thousands of farmers to Washington, D.C. in the midst of a frigid February. But the story of how they go there didn’t start in the 1970s— it started in the late 1800s, when farmers and rural workers hit an economic and political wall, over which only the rich and powerful could climb. To overcome, they would draw on the lessons of previous generations of fighting American farmers, who taught that the first step to surviving the cris
American Farmers, American Fighters (opens the original)
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It’s been a long, hot, dry summer around here, and the deprivation is taking its toll. Maybe you feel it too— the time poverty, the financial poverty, the scarcity of everything, including patience, kindness, and sanity. The lack feels as pervasive as it is corrosive right now. When I was a kid, I had a friend who taught me what to do at times like these. Find a story. Find a story where the characters, the setting, the plot, something, anything, makes you think, “yeah, I know what that’s like.”
Why We Have “Factory Farms” Instead of “Sweatshop Farms” (opens the original)
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People hate “factory farms.” And listen, I get it. Factories might be fine to make teddy bears, plastic hangers, heck, even things like cheetos, but who is enchanted by the idea that living things, namely plants and animals, are being raised in a “factory” setting? After all, living things are kind of definitionally resistant to the standardization, specialization, and manipulation that a “factory” implies.What fascinates me about our hatred for the idea of “factory farms” is that 100 years ago,
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