Wanted to watch it for 2 main reasons:
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I enjoyed the first season and wanted to see if second season was as good tdlr: it is
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The fact there was articles coming out Wednesday/Thursdays about him being investigated for the Markle article made me suspicious they might be trying to start a boycott like Hogwarts Legacy. Wanted to see if there's any reason the left might not want the public to watch it.
Spolier if you want to watch it first from here, skip to the tldr as last line:
It's as funny, informative and interesting as the first season but HEAVILY showed how government interference has brankrupted farmers and is strangling farmers attempts to diversify their income.
The EU essentially had subsidised farmers heavily, with Brexit happening that ends in the UK. Not just that but the EU farmers still have the subsidiary so they can lower the cost of their produce like pigs and undercut UK farmers in price.
The government has been wishy-washy on cowering this (as who cares about food security when Ukraine needs to be funded) so farmers need to look to other methods to balance the books as supermarkets undercut them so Clarkson decides to make a restaurant to sell his and other farmers produce there at a better rate.
The council doesn't just refuses planning permission on his land, but then start pulling every restriction they can to hurt him (even putting cones all along a country road outside his shop). He gets round this with loopholes by using an old barn instead for his restaurant and building it 2 days after they tell the council about it.
He also illustrates the horrible handling of TB with badgers and Cows and of the amount of redtape that holds farmers back.
TLDR: Season 2 illustrates the inadequacies, inefficiencies and pettiness of government that stops farmers earning a livable income from their produce alone including stopping diversification efforts. Not good having this widely viewed if you're trying to take farmer's land from them...
Really hurts the communists if you remind them why full government control of farming ALWAYS leads to famine...
It’s why they keep skipping over Mao’s new way of farming plan…
I expected the first season did a really good job of showing the rural people that are hated so much in a positive light. I didn't think they'd want the show to go on for that reason alone. Now it's making the government look bad? I'm sure everyone is happy Clarkson was a meanie to the Duchess of Woke so they have a reason to kill it.
Counter-narratives must always be destroyed in totalitarian regimes.
I tried searching for viewing figures but too early probably
The only complaint I saw from people that watched it was it was only 8 episodes lol
I think this is honestly the way forward. At least where I live out in farm country in the US (which, admittedly, is less hostile to its farmers than The UK/Europe), a ton of ranches in my area have started setting up their own brick and mortar stores, as well as websites. And through them they will sell their own meat directly, usually at a lower cost than stories since you are buying ranch direct. I have even seen some ranches teaming up to either buy or build their own slaughterhouses and meat packing plants to start moving the needle on meat prices.
Of course, this only works in states that both have a more friendly attitude toward their citizens, and in states that actually have the ranchers to do this sort of stuff. So if the WEF officially told everyone "Eat ze bugs. This is a threat", and states like mine said "Lol. Lmao even." and kept doing their thing, I would still have meat. Meanwhile, California would probably have meat runners the same way there were whiskey runners in Prohibition.
He actually went even further as he bought a distillery and has his own beer now!
But yeah farm shops/restaurants and direct selling may be the best way to go but I know in the states they've tried attacking that too since the government tried legal action against an Amish farmer direct selling to customers for not using chemicals that they recommend in his farming.
To be fair, that was just as much an aspect of living in a state that is pozzed (Pennsylvania) rather than any sort of initiative against farmers. Because if you tried to do something like that here in Kansas, the Farm Bureau would be busting down the governors door and telling them that they just signed the death warrant on their political career in the state. It even parallels since there is a sizable Amish community in the state as well.
But then, agriculture and ranching are some of the largest forces in the state, so it makes sense that any attempt to curtail them around here would be met with a swift kick to the jaw. The same can not be said in plays like PA or CA.
Hopefully that remains true but 'give them an inch, they take a mile' and so even though these things happen in blue hellholes, unless you line the border with barbed wire, landmines and armed guards (politically or non politically, whichever is more effective) they'll try to creep it into other states.
Oh look, another dumb dad in media.
What ranches offer beef online? The few I've seen are eastern coastal elites who've bought ranches out west and now charge conservative retards 3 times what my already expensive grocery store sells it at. They like to advertise on talking retards who also advertise gold and buckets of powdered slop.
It may be more local, two of the local ranches I know of offered online ordering and delivery. But 1) being local ranches it is unlikely they would advertise outside of the region, and 2) both sold more high-end meat (one specializing in Waygu, and the other in Bison).
I know the ads you are talking about though and always thought they sounded sketchy to me as well.
Omaha Steaks is better priced, and their prices are fucking nuts. Those companies also say 'grassfed' and that meat stinks of shit and tastes like it too. I've had grassfed hamburger and steaks, different companies, different parts of the country, both taste like cow shit.
Its the Amos miller case now in court that will decide that. Robert Barnes is suing the FED.
Honestly, you're just gonna have to go to local farmers, and buy a meat fridge.
I have a meat freezer. My grocery chain is good at only buying quality meats from here in the U.S., hence their outrageous prices. But, if I could get some good beef at a similar price, delivered, I would. The local producers are all tied to national food chains. It's Florida, local producers who offer things are almost exclusively vegetable farmers.
Now see, that is what I am getting at. Kansas is the 3rd largest producer of meat in the country, so it makes sense that I have lots of local options for meat. Its if I want fish that I have to start getting unusual. IE: I get US caught/farmed Salmon, and that cost a pretty penny while beef and pork are generally dirt cheap in comparison.
We don't have cheap either of those options. Florida is the plantation of the country. Almost everything we produce is sold before it's even sewn in the fields or harvested from the waters.
The government wants to control the population, so it controls the food supply. This is how this always goes.
I think this is why lamb from Australia of all places ends up being cheaper to buy than that grown in the actual UK, despite being on the literal other side of the planet.
Two of the saddest things I heard in the show was 2 farmers, one a dairy and another a couple that raise pigs.
The pig farmers had pigs that were ready for slaughter to be sold but slaughter houses were full of cheaper pig meat fro. Europe so they were losing money
The dairy farmer got crippled thanks to a TB outbreak that I think I remember her saying out of 120 cows, only 60 were producing and her selling milk at Clarkson's shop was keeping her afloat
They were all in on Clarkson's restaurant with other farmers which he only got done in the end thanks to his builder that knew a great loophole as otherwise, they'd be screwed.
OTOH (in the US at least) farmers were directly responsible for the big push on the right for endless immigration and lax policies against illegal immigrants.
So it's a bit more complicated than the "plight of the poor farmer".
What mega-corporations are trying to corner the farmland/food markets in the EU? In the US, Bill Gates has been buying a ton of farmland lately. It sounds like this stuff is a sort of neo-enclosure act.
I'd assume that for most businesses but not actual farmers unless something catastrophic happens to your farm.
Unfortunately due to regulations in the West compared to other places, supermarkets and subsidised production everywhere else, the problem is unless you ensure farmers in your home nation can easily earn a living first, you run the risk of being more reliant on imports which means your country is easier to control from the outside as you have not got a sustainable food production internally.
Not really, no. "Price Stability" is always another way of saying "mass government intervention" because of course you're going to have sales, that's how you get rid of excess inventory.
And no, that's not what caused the Great Depression, that was a lie FDR told to seize control of farming. It (and the dust bowl) started out as a massive tractor bubble that the government pushed onto farming to "industrialize" it. The resulting economic shockwaves, gave the government excuses to try and control the economy even more, resulting in further knock-on effects, resulting in the government demanding more power to solve the problems it caused.
Lo and behold, a government program caused incredible damage that the government decided only a government program could solve.