I don't know what it's like over in Canada, but here in Australia it seems like the two biggest problems farmers face are the increasingly extreme climate and the vicehold the supermarket duopoly has over the market, giving them both monopoly and monopsony power, allowing them to completely screw over farmers.

We have two main parties, one which has consistently been more in favour of action on climate change than the other, and which is also the less friendly one to corporate interests. We also have a third somewhat-major party that has extremely strong policies on climate change and monopolies. Guess which of these three parties farmers have consistently overwhelmingly voted for over the past 30+ years?

So nah, fuck 'em. They've brought it on themselves. I've no interest in taxpayers subsidising them.

But maybe circumstances in Canada are different.

[–] Undearius@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

Yeah, that pretty much sounds like the exact same thing here.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 week ago

Exactly the same in NZ too.