• JokeDeity@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    I hesitate to side with one anti science group over another. Why aren’t real farmers doing the right thing?

    • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)@badatbeing.social
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      Because you have to produce as much as possible if you are to compete with the corporate farms. This means for example maybe using the scary dangerous pesticide allowing the farm to get the greatest yield, they’d rather not, but the alternative is their farm goes under.

      If things were regulated (and enforced), then corporate farms are disincentivised and farmers would produce safer food for consumption.