Do farmers who voted for Trump want de facto slaves? Farmer Sarah Taber seems to think so. YouTube...

[Hekate]

29. The author is a farmer, & I have found her take on the issues educational & thought provoking

She’s a small farmer, and a farming consultant now with a college degree, but as a youngster she worked for pay in the actual fields alongside people who did not get paid for their work. They were from the prisons. Other people did not get paid either — their wages went to their overseers, the people in charge of seeing they were trucked into the US at harvest time. She’s keenly interested in labor conditions.

I wish I had a transcript of the time she talked about the history of migrant farm labor in this country, going back about a century and a half. They’ve always been a necessity. They used to travel back and forth across the border as a matter of course.

And the time she talked about who actually owns the farms — aside from some people who inherited, there are quite a few city people who need a tax shelter. Just a tax shelter, not “a way of life, “ a big tax shelter. The biggest and easiest crops to grow are soybeans and corn — very mechanized export crops, in vast acres of monoculture.

In my county we do labor-intensive crops, like strawberries, broccoli, and avocados, and ICE has been devastating and terrifying this year. At least I know that much — had no idea about the soybeans before this.

She ran for public office in her state as a Democrat — lost — will run again, I think.

So, listen or don't listen, but I always feel I’ve learned something, which is why I occasionally pass her vids along.