Why aren't farmers seen as scroungers?

[Cismyass]

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?

My first ever

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

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...

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

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

Because we need food! don’t be so idiotic

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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.

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

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?

You can have a too, MsVestibule.

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

Please do make a stand OP and stop buying food.

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

MissMarplesKnitting

That actually made me chuckle for some reason

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.

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?

Really? 🙄

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

Have another

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

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

Sorry, my mental sputtering was clearly translated into my typing

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 .

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