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Rob Zazueta
Rob Zazueta
@robz@toot.robzazueta.com  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

I find this news about the Kauai Coffee Company being forced out of business disturbing:

https://www.sfgate.com/hawaii/article/hawaii-kauai-coffee-closure-21297023.php

The leasing agreement described here is not uncommon with other farms.

If the people owning the land force the people working the land off of it, then we lose whatever that land was producing.

In this case, it's coffee. Whether you consider that a necessity is probably a point of personal taste.

But what happens when they start closing corn fields or chicken farms or...?

SFGATE

America's largest coffee grower faces closure

The coffee company has operated on Kauai since 1987.
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Rob Zazueta
Rob Zazueta
@robz@toot.robzazueta.com replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

"When we received an indication that a renewal was uncertain, we considered leasing or selling the land to another interested steward whose values aligned with ours and could continue the legacy of agriculture on this land," said Brue Baukol, VP of the folks owning the land.

"Steward" is an interesting word choice here.

One must assume the coffee farmers *were* stewarding the land.

This is weasel-speak for "We're hoping for massive payday - fuck the farmers."

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Rob Zazueta
Rob Zazueta
@robz@toot.robzazueta.com replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

It's basically enshittification applied to agriculture.

If it spreads, it will lead to famine.

Not because of climate or anything like that - but because of the same reasons *EVERY* famine since the beginning of the 20th century happened:

Selfish assholes putting their own desire for power over all sense of reason or community.

When are we going to throw these fuckers off the boat?

#GeneralStrike #PermanentStrike

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