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California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops

389 points · 987 comments · randycupertino

  1. driverdan · · focus · HN ↗
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    1. legitster · · focus · HN ↗
      Even if that slippery slope logic were true, the vast vast vast majority of farmers in the country are some flavor of conservative. It would be hard to ignore all of them and also care about our food supply.
      1. twright · · focus · HN ↗
        I think OP was more pointing out a supreme irony with the farmer demographic. They rely heavily on seasonal immigrant labor yet they voted for immigrants to be rounded up and forbidden to enter the US. Their sales rely on exports (e.g. soybeans) and imports (tractor parts, fertilizer) yet they voted for a complete upending of the global trade system that benefitted them. So that they are complaining about the current economic climate while simultaneously politically being fully behind it is schadenfreude for many.
        1. domh · · focus · HN ↗
          Same as UK farmers voting for Brexit whilst being beneficiaries of EU subsidies for farming.
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