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Right to Harm (2019)
yellow_rose1 2 points 2 months ago.

You are so right. Big FARMA that’s the first time I’ve heard that term. It is a huge corporation that enslaves these farmers and most never make the money that they are contracted into making, because so many chickens die due to their living conditions. I went to visit the country home where I grew up and it was a dairy farm run by the Vanberkles it was obviously very lucrative farming back then in Ontario as they had the state of the art equipment and their kids had their very own 3 wheelers back then, that is what they were. Dirt bikes etc. They had cow corn fields growing all over the place, they owned much of the area at the time. This was in the mid 70’s to early 80’s. I had my son, in 1990 I took him on a Sunday drive to see the old house we had, things sure had changed. Instead of growing corn for the cows all the fields were filled with soybean. It just shocks the conscience to think of what farming was to what it has become. I’m sure old man Vanburkle is rolling over in his grave now. Oh and the stench of the creek that ran behind our house was obviously being polluted by runoff. I’m hearing that many people have died of cancer. The ones that stayed that is. I’m glad we got out when we did back in 1984.

Surly 14 points 2 months ago.

It’s the first time I’ve heard big FARMA too. heh It just popped up in my head. Quite fitting, I think.

My friend’s dad’s farm is all gone now. I’m not sure what they’ve done with the land. A lot of it was old apple orchards and just open fields, but I’m sure they sold it all off. There are a lot of new subdivisions back there. I highly doubt anyone is farming it. Such a shame. We had so much fun out there. We’d jump on the horses and ride like idiots, not a saddle, helmet or riding lesson to be seen. And zero supervision, of course. It was the 70s/80s after all. :D