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corbettkroehler

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1. I First Learned About Farmer Suicide Rates In India
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 09:50 AM
Mar 2019

Over there, the cause most often was failed crops due to drought, largely caused by climate change. The phenomenon has come home to America thanks to a Congress paid for by BigAg and a Justice Department too facile to enforce what few laws we have.

Let's all remember that we had a chance to reapportion subsidies under the Farm Act a few years ago so that one family could not scoop up all of the money by creating multiple subsidiary companies under different names. It was fillibustered by both parties.

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