[lbo-talk] Politics of food

Joseph Catron jncatron at gmail.com
Fri Nov 13 18:29:27 PST 2009


On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 9:13 PM, brad bauerly <bbauerly at gmail.com> wrote:

By capitalist agriculture do you mean farmers who hire wage laborers or are
> family farms capitalist?
>

My impression, from having been peripherally involved in a few campaigns around farm labor, is that very few "family farms" refrain from hiring seasonal employees, and that those falling into this category are so small they're hardly a factor in the industry as a whole.

-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."



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