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zeemike

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Wed Dec 19, 2012, 12:22 PM
Dec 2012

We must get away from the corporate model for our food.

I knew several chicken farmers...and any one can be one if you have the land...and sign a contract with Tyson's of some outfit like that...they will finance it for you....and they will keep you in debt for the rest of your life unless you want to lose your land to them too.
And they make you compete for your money....how many pounds of chicken you produce depends on how much you get for it.

One of the guys I know that got into it payed off his debt to them and they wanted him to upgrade his operation...when he refused the cut him off...and he used the chicken houses to store hay in....the others just became slaves to the company.

I say fuck corporate farms...don't buy that shit if you don't have to.

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