Trump administration cancels grant allowing Illinois schools to buy from local farmers.
Trump administration cancels grant allowing Illinois schools to buy from local farmers.
A federal fund has been cut that provided Illinois schools and childcare centers with healthy foods from local farms and suppliers.
So much for encouraging local economy. Now all fruits and veggies will come from Mexico and frozen 😂
America first! Lol
The first administration fucked over farmers with tariffs and then bailed them out. Trillions of dollars are being grifted to rich. They'll chip in a few meager billions to farmers again.
Besides they hated when Obama tried to give kids healthy meals. I'm sure they be overjoyed that kids don't have to eat the woke fresh foods.
The same folks who freaked out when Obama said they'd have to eat their veggies and screaming "No Pain, No Gain" now.
I'm hopeful this will all lead to America's farmers breaking from the republican party.
I fear american farmers will go bankrupt and all their land will be bought by corporations.
american farmers will go bankrupt and all their land will be bought by corporations.
We're already past that. Something like 6 companies own the vast majority of US agriculture. And they're not run by farmers but hedgies and the like, who have been setting up illegal monopolies while the feds do nothing about it on account of extreme bribery.
I fear american farmers will go bankrupt and all their land will be bought by corporations.
That's already kinda the case that's been happening in slow motion. Various policies over the last several decades have driven family farmers out of business to be replaced with bigger and bigger companies.
Farmers sure do love voting Conservative, despite the fact that it negatively impacts them. The mistake is bringing logic into a discussion like this.
The farmers and the military vets probably high five each other just before the leopards come
Yeah, and then they'll just blame it on woke
That’s literally the plan. It’s also why vail and ikon been buying up snow trails since the 80s/90s
Man they sure like fucking over farmers, guess Soviet-style wreckage of agriculture by the government was on the Putin "to do" list.
Soviet-style wreckage of agriculture by the government was on the Putin “to do” list.
At least the Ural-Siberian method actually had a reason to be implemented and the NEP/capitalist alternative was a disaster.
America meanwhile already has a working agriculture system and Trump is just shredding it needlessly to pieces.
Aren't the tariffs meant to be in place to stimulate the internal economy? These orders are starting to look a lot like high treason.
Said to? Yes. Meant to? No.
Yeah, markets are supposed to be free! Can't be propping up uncompetitive businesses (unless they're owned by cronies).
Crony capitalism!
No, that's a lie they tell you because 1. Trump is a fucking idiot, and 2. The truth gives him what wants which is to exploit America fir his own narcissism. It's a wonder he doesn't just call it Trumpland Inc.
Prudent planning. Just preparing for the dust bowl.
Learning the hard way the E in DEI was helping them.
Please sir, can I have some more?
Let them eat cake!
Why the hell would you need a grant to allow that? Can’t they buy from whoever they please?
Think of it more as a farm-to-table addition that was the only source of real fruits and vegetables.
Now going forward, everything will come from the back of a truck, previously frozen.
Let's not even get into who's making money off it now. I'm already too depressed.