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Why aren't farmers seen as scroungers?

237 replies

Cismyass · 22/07/2018 10:42

If someone is in receipt of benefits they are seen as a scrounger and if their business doesn't make them minimum wage it is seen as unviable. When some farmers receive huge EU subsidies and make very little money themselves through actual farming why are they seen as any different?

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bluemascara · 22/07/2018 10:45
Biscuit
fourpawswhite · 22/07/2018 10:46

My first ever Biscuit

flamingofridays · 22/07/2018 10:47

Really! I imagine it's one of the hardest jobs you could possibly do!

ShovingLeopard · 22/07/2018 10:47

Because we need food, and it needs to be cheap enough so that those on low incomes don't starve. Farmers work for the good of society.

Said by an inveterate townie...

rosamacrose · 22/07/2018 10:47

Was struck dumb. But good idea pps
Have another one op.Biscuit

MsVestibule · 22/07/2018 10:47

What's with the biscuits? If you disagree with the OP, why not tell her why?

flossietoot · 22/07/2018 10:48

Because we need food! don’t be so idiotic

MissMarplesKnitting · 22/07/2018 10:48

Ha
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Biscuit

ShovingLeopard · 22/07/2018 10:49

Though if your main point is disgust at the demonisation of benefit recipients, such as the disabled, then I am right with you. A large portion of society has been played like a fiddle with that particular propaganda effort.

vampirethriller · 22/07/2018 10:49

Do you eat? Does your family?
That's why.

mumonashoestring · 22/07/2018 10:49

Farming subsidies aren't benefits. Why not do a 2 second google search and educate yourself about how they work instead of sounding off (and sounding like a tit) and expecting everyone to do your homework for you?

HolyPieter · 22/07/2018 10:49

You can have a Biscuit too, MsVestibule.

MamaOotie · 22/07/2018 10:50

Because those businesses that are not viable are not supporting the nation's wellbeing and economy. Farming is a big part of UK sustainability. Would have thought that was fairly obvious Hmm

DidimusStench · 22/07/2018 10:50

Please do make a stand OP and stop buying food.

Wheretheresawill1 · 22/07/2018 10:51

Because they work bloody hardc365 days a year in all weathers. Also because milk is cheaper than water- must be soul destroying

MamaOotie · 22/07/2018 10:51

MissMarplesKnitting

That actually made me chuckle for some reason Grin

Racecardriver · 22/07/2018 10:51

Well to be fair many of them have been restricted to growing unprofotable crops by the EU. I really can't get worked up over them taking subsidies.

CuriousaboutSamphire · 22/07/2018 10:52

You are really asking that?

When it is often the landowner that gets the subsidoes, not the individual farmer.

When dairy farmers are going to the wall because we, all cinsumers, are complicit with the below cost of manufacture price the supermrkets pay them?

When beef farmers are under pressure due to all sorts of regulations that makes rearing beef a loss making proposition?

When arable farmers are held to stringent one way contracts that mean they lose money, are fined if they cannot meet a ddeadline but are left to swallow the costs os food grown that supermarkets then do not want?

When, as a nation we are so used to cheap food we throw away tonnes of it, over £13bn worth!


If we paid farmers a viable price for their goods they wouldn't need any subsidy, womethng UK farmers went to some lengths to point out before we joined the EU. Those subsidies exist becasue of other country's demands, e.g France. We simply didn't blink when they were used by a succession of governments to both allow a reduction in pay to farmers and to show us, gullible public, how greedy farmers are.

Don't you think it is utterly shameful that, as a nation, we don't value our food and those who grow it and are quite happy to see them live in absolute penury.... mainly because we simply don't understand the true economics of it and are happy to believe the warped lies we have been spoon fed for so long?

Snowysky20009 · 22/07/2018 10:52

Really? 🙄

madamginger · 22/07/2018 10:53

I’m from a farming family.
They are up at 5am most days and work till midnight, they hardly ever take holidays, they take second or third jobs to make ends meet. The job is 365 days a year, outside in all weathers.
Without farmers you would literally starve and/or not be able to afford food
Biscuit

Shadow01 · 22/07/2018 10:53

Have another Biscuit

Greyponcho · 22/07/2018 10:53

Because they’re not scroungers, that’s why.
Hmm

P.s. have a Biscuit . One that isn’t made by ‘scroungers’ Grin

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CuriousaboutSamphire · 22/07/2018 10:54

Sorry, my mental sputtering was clearly translated into my typing Grin

plominoagain · 22/07/2018 10:54

I wouldn't worry too much OP , they won't be getting any after Brexit so you can just complain about your food bill going up and up instead .

bluemascara · 22/07/2018 10:54

It's like a mcvittie's biscuit factory here today 😂

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