#egg farms

[justcatposts]

Cat incubating eggs and raising chicks

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#cat #cats #cats of tumblr #aww #cute #lo #lol #funny #animals #wholesome #eggs #ducks #chickens #farm life #farm animals

[thomas--bombadil]

Eggs of all colors, from pure-white to dark-brown.  

These eggs were laid by many different types of hens.

#midwest #springtime #eggs #egg #chicken eggs #foodpics #food photography #country eggs #farm photography #farmcore #foodcore #rainbow eggs #country living #farm #Easter #original photography #original photography on tumblr

[reasoningdaily]

yet they say the impact from the fire was not predicted to raise prices, and we can all see that the egg industry is raking in record profits this year. some are reporting more than 750% increase in profits. This is gouging which is why I wonder why the egg industry is doing this in america.

heres something we bet you never realized ?

Since Emancipation, agriculture has moved its focus from one labor source to another in response to shifting currents of populism, nativism and racism. All three benefit from the exploitation of minority populations, and all three justify policies of exploitation in economic terms.

Arizona prisons partners with one of the countries largest egg farms?

these folks not only make egg products, but only cost the state $3.00 per hour in labor. America is the shithole of ethics

read this,

Farmers turn to prisons to fill labor needs

With immigration numbers low, the agriculture industry looks to another form of disenfranchised workers.

American agriculture often depends on migrant workers, like the one pictured here harvesting corn in Gilroy, California. But the anti-immigration policies of the Trump administration have farmers turning to prisoners to harvest labor-intensive crops.

Prison inmates are picking fruits and vegetables at a rate not seen since Jim Crow.

Convict leasing for agriculture – a system that allows states to sell prison labor to private farms – became infamous in the late 1800s for the brutal conditions it imposed on captive, mostly black workers.

Federal and state laws prohibited convict leasing for most of the 20th century, but the once-notorious practice is making a comeback.

Under lucrative arrangements, states are increasingly leasing prisoners to private corporations to harvest food for American consumers.

Why now?

The U.S. food system relies on cheap labor. Today, median income for farm workers is $10.66 an hour, with 33% of farm-worker households living below the poverty line.

Historically, agriculture has suppressed wages – and eschewed worker protections – by hiring from vulnerable groups, notably, undocumented migrants. By some estimates, 70% of agriculture’s 1.2 million workers are undocumented.

As current anti-immigrant policies diminish the supply of migrant workers (both documented and undocumented), farmers are not able to find the labor they need. So, in states such as Arizona, Idaho and Washington that grow labor-intensive crops like onions, apples and tomatoes, prison systems have responded by leasing convicts to growers desperate for workers.

The racist roots of convict leasing

Since Reconstruction, states have used prisoners to solve labor supply problems in industries such as road and rail construction, mining and agriculture. But convict leasing has also been a powerful weapon of white supremacy, and now, anti-immigrant sentiment.

After Emancipation, southern economies faced a crisis: how to maintain a racial caste system and a supply of surplus labor now that blacks were free.

Southern states passed vagrancy laws, Black Codes, and other legislation to selectively incarcerate freed slaves. For example, under Mississippi’s vagrancy law, all black men had to provide written proof of a job or face a $50 fine. Those who could not pay were forced to work for any white man willing to pay the fine — an amount that was deducted from the black man’s wage.

During the late 1800s, mass incarceration created an army of cheap labor that could be leased to private businesses for substantial profit. In 1886, state revenues from leasing exceeded the cost of running prisons by nearly 400%. Between 1870 and 1910, 88% of convicts leased in Georgia were black. In this Library of Congress photo from 1903, juvenile convicts are shown at work in the fields, location unknown. Library of Congress/Detroit Publishing Co.

Populist response

But cheap convict labor also suppressed wages for free whites, and by 1900, poor whites began pushing back.

In 1904, James Vardaman was elected governor of Mississippi on a platform of returning whites to work and blacks to confinement. These populist white supremacist sentiments dovetailed with national economic concerns during the Great Depression, when agricultural failures led to widespread unemployment.

In the 1930s, the Ashurst-Sumners Act and accompanying state laws prohibited convict leasing and the sale of prisoner-made goods on the open market. Inmates still worked in agriculture, but the food they produced had to be consumed by other prisoners or state workers.

By the late 1970s, with growing competition from foreign manufacturing, U.S. companies sought out domestic sources of cheap labor.

Under pressure from corporate lobbies like the American Legislative Exchange Council, Congress relaxed restrictions on convict leasing with the Justice System Improvement Act. As the manufacturing and service sectors began hiring prisoners, agriculture expanded its use of migrant workers.

Profit and exploitation

Today, convict leasing offers significant revenues for prisons.

Most wages paid to inmates are garnished by prisons to cover incarceration costs and pay victim restitution programs. In some cases, prisoners see no monetary compensation whatsoever. In 2015 and 2016, the California Prison Industry Authority made over $2 million from its food and agriculture sector.

Growers can reap significant revenues, too. Inmates are excluded from federal minimum wage protections, allowing prison systems to lease convicts at a rate below the going labor rate. In Arizona, inmates leased through Arizona Correctional Industries (ACI) receive a wage of $3-$4 per hour before deductions. Meanwhile, the state’s minimum wage for most non-incarcerated farm workers is $11/hr.

Beyond the unfairness of low wages, inadequate state and federal regulations ensure that agricultural work continues to be onerous. Laborers endure long hours, repetitive motion injuries, temperature and humidity extremes and exposure to caustic and carcinogenic chemicals.

For inmates, these circumstances are unlikely to change. U.S. courts have ruled that prisoners are prohibited from organizing for higher wages and working conditions – though strikes have occurred in recent years.

Furthermore, inmates are not legally considered employees, which means they are excluded from protection under parts of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the Equal Pay Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the National Labor Relations Act and the Federal Tort Claims Act.

Excerpt from minutes of the regular meeting of the Texas Penitentiary Board, Nov. 12, 1903.

Whose labor is being sold?

The total number – and racial makeup – of leased inmates is difficult to calculate. Not all prison systems report on farming operations or leased labor arrangements. According to one advocacy group, at least 30,000 inmates work within the food system. But to the extent that convict leasing reflects overall inmate demographics, prison agriculture is distinctly racial.

Blacks make up 39% of inmates, but only 12% of the general population, making blacks six times more likely than whites to be incarcerated. Over the last 50 years – the same period that saw the return of convict leasing – the black incarceration rate quadrupled.

Proponents of “prison industries” argue that leasing provides rehabilitative benefits like on-the-job training for reentry. But research shows that within the prison system, whites receive better jobs than blacks, with better pay and more beneficial skills.

Whereas migrant workers often benefit home communities by returning a portion of their wages as remittances, the garnishing or nonpayment of convict wages prevents inmates from contributing to their families and home economies.

Since Emancipation, agriculture has moved its focus from one labor source to another in response to shifting currents of populism, nativism and racism. All three benefit from the exploitation of minority populations, and all three justify policies of exploitation in economic terms.

Convict leasing is the first – and now the latest – strategy.

#eggs #egg farms #chickens #prison industries #arizona #connecticut #Arizona Correctional Industries - Partnership with Hickman's Family Farms #Hillendale Farms #egg prices #egg price increases #record profits in egg business in 2023 #Farmers turn to prisons to fill labor needs #Youtube

[firestorm09890]

Penny stardewvalley makes me so sad because she's SO sensitive to, like, basically everything you tell her (telling her that you can't stand children while two children are nearby is a pretty lousy move but -1500 friendship?? being a jerk to other characters' faces typically loses you about 50 points, and if you choose the option labeled "creepy" and ask Leah for a kiss in her 2 heart event she physically hits you and kicks you out of her house but that's only -100 friendship…) and so if you want to befriend her it's a whole lot of lying and tiptoeing around her feelings (2 hearts: George was right but saying that makes her feel bad. 6 hearts: her food sucks but even if you try to be polite about it she feels like a failure; only a bald-faced lie pleases her. 8 hearts: saying you don't want to be tied down with a family loses you a little bit of friendship and she's only happy if you say you want kids) and I can't help but think she's a product of her environment. She lives in a trailer with only her mother, who gets drunk every night and has something of a temper. Penny's like a skittish rescue animal who won’t even come out from hiding under something unless you leave her lots of treats

#stardew valley #penny sdv #I didn't mention the SECOND opportunity to lose 1500 friendship with her #because I think if you go out of your way to date her and then tell her that you don't like her that way then you deserve it #but yeah she's super volatile #i was upset for a little bit after reading that one post saying the ‘right’ answer in the 2 heart event is ableist #like nooooo not my favorite farming game :( #except that in the context of several other things in the game it becomes clear that winning someone over #does not always mean doing the right thing #looking directly at how the easiest way to befriend shane and pam is by enabling their alcoholism #which is framed as a harmful thing even if the characters themselves like it #you have to lie to befriend other characters too like with sam dropping his egg #and you can lose a little friendship based on preferences like sebastian asking about what books you like #though to be fair if i saw someone who could potentially be cool and i found out that what they like was stuff im not into id also #lose interest a little #anyway those are all examples spread around on different characters #penny's got it all at once #me post

[birchsapfaerie]

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#farmcore #farm aesthetic #homesteading #homesteading aesthetic #eggs #chicken eggs #preserving #self sustainability #cottagecore #comfortcore

[moeblob]

So with the Community Center done + both harem routes taken... Asmodeus♡ proposed! In Marnie's kitchen. Like a classy individual.

#stardew valley #farmer asmodeus♡ #sdv shane #and in case only i care (i do) i wanna say that they got married #year 2 winter 16 #which ! IS! amazing because 2x2 = 4 and winter is the fourth month so 4x4 = 16 #therefore i planned it perfectly and have no regrets thanks bye #also i think it is peak humor when you do the big request for gus #and its like oh thank you gus for the wonderful omelette ! and hes like yeah got them from the damned farm #and marnie is like mmm the damned eggs.... #bc i really did just name his farm The Damned #also won the winter fishing contest again surprising no one in the valley im sure #how does asmo do it? how is the farmer so good at fishing? easy the town forgets hes a farmer and only wants fish #ive neglected fishing with him recently tho because im TRYING to cap my combat skill which is... behind #since no one EVER wanted monsters to be fought EVER in their ENTIRE LIVES so ... it was slacking

[cherium-meadows]

I want y’all to know I’ll be back once I’m done having my fill w/ the new update LMAOO

In the mean time why did he do this when I gave him an egg😭😭😭😭

#stardew valley #alex stardew valley #alex sdv #stardew valley 1.6 #spoilers #every other time I give him an egg he’s normal and like thanks this is great for bulking up #but this time he was like lemme just crack that bad boy right open #alright fuckin Gaston lmao??? #also I’m still using the Yandere mod tho this is my oc Elijah #I made him years ago but I wanted to remake his file bc I haven’t touched it in years #and it has like 100+ hours on that farm #anyways massive adv brain rot rn #none of you will escape me

[cacaocheri]

hiii stardew valley fandom <3333 ive been brainrotting over this game for a week now and its about time i drew fanart

this is my farmer, charlie!!! they're very goofy and just trying to do their best even if they fish most of the time and are barely maintaining their farm. but hey at least theyre nice!!!!

they might have a thing going on with the local doctor...

(magma done with @tainted-genome !!!)

#some of my dca followers might recognize charlie.... #i decided i want them to be my self insert oc across all platforms #this mf has so much rizz theyre gonna date everybody #but yeah some easter eggs my farm is named daydream farm and i named the animals after fnaf characters #my cat is named sun <3333 #anywho #my art #stardew valley #sdv fanart #harvey stardew valley #harvey sdv #stardew valley harvey

[reality-detective]

Here is a way to preserve your farm fresh eggs for winter or to just add them to your storage.

Want to try this method? Here’s how

• Load your clean jar of bucket with your clean (no debris stuck to them), but unwashed farm fresh eggs

• Measure out a quart of water and add 1 (weighted) ounce of pickling lime to the water, stir and pour over your eggs

• Repeat this until your eggs are covered by 1-2 inches with water/lime mixture. For every quart of water you will need to mix in 1 weighted ounce of pickling lime

• Cover jar and store in a cool dark place.

Note:

*this will last for up to two years if done correctly and stored correctly.

**if you wash the eggs prior to this process you will compromise the seal which will allow the lime water to leach into your eggs which will compromise the egg rendering it no good.

This will not work with grocery store eggs. 🤔

#pay attention #educate yourselves #educate yourself #knowledge is power #reeducate yourself #reeducate yourselves #think about it #think for yourselves #think for yourself #do your homework #do some research #do your own research #ask yourself questions #question everything #eggs #preserving food #you decide #farm fresh eggs

[finnitesimal]

CHAYANNE PISSA CAPTAIN NUMERO UNO 💯💯🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡

#me when im an egg and the first night they took me home all my two dads did was #1. farm 2. fight monsters 3. teach me music and cooking 4. call each other pet names and sleep in the same bed #itd shape me as a person too #pissa #ALL RISE FOR YOUR FUCKING CAPTAIN!!!!!!!! WE WOULDNT BE HERE WITHOUT HIM #qsmp chayanne #do you think nussa briefs the other admins. if you play chayanne i need you to convey that he believesin his parents' marriage SO much

[3-aem]

my toxic trait is picking up random hobbies on a whim like today i went shopping for a cardigan but found No cardigan i liked and so i naturally decided that i can just knit one even tho the only thing i have ever knit was a 8” by 3” rectangle in 5th grade that just looked so pathetic-

#digital art is truly one of the cheapest hobbies #hobbies i do not recommend with my entire soul: baking #fk baking i have beef with baking baking is a fking SCAM #i denounce ur sugar cookie recipe and ur stupid apple tartes!!! #actually i really love both #but eggs are so expensive now it just cant be worth it #btw who allowed egg prices to go back up #bruh i dont want to pay more than #like 20 cents per egg thats how much they are worth to me #oh but the sanity of the chickens u know what i didnt make the farming industry they should figure that out and i should still be allowed #to eat eggs #also like short of driving to a farm urself and verifying the free rangeness u just cant trust the labels #free range could refer to the holy pasture fields #or it could mean like a 0.2 sqft pissing block outside the pen #im tired of making posts about gj let me vent about eggs for one night geez #delete later

[aurriearts]

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regina and her doll(y).

tried something different.

#my art #fallen hero #fhr #sidestep #regina siepen #aurrie's art #HEY LOOK REGINA DEBUT! #eye contact #to everyone who didnt know. sura's farm nickname was dolly. like the cloned sheep. regina came up with it #she feels like the kind of person to do that ngl #and featuring sura's cuckoosona the asian emerald cuckoo!theres like a whole bunch of diff cuckoos out there #(sura's farm code has TWO easter eggs btw. one's obvious the other less so)

[thomas--bombadil]

Have you ever seen chickens dustbathing?

It's quite mesmerizing :)

They were so happy; I spent quite a while watching them just enjoying their lives. . .

#midwest #winter #chicken #chicken video #birds #chickens #chicken eggs #cottagecore #farm animals #farm living #farmcore #dustbathing #bird

[bethanydelleman]

These are my beautiful chickens. Their names are Truck, Smartie, and Sun-sun (my kids named them):

They lay these beautiful eggs:

I love them.

#thats the whole post #they live in my backyard #they are the best #their eggs are very yummy #chickens #personal #we raised them from chicks #backyard farming

[woobble42069]

landduo is awesome because they'll say they hate each other and want the other to die horrible deaths and live through horrible fates, and mean it! but then they'll also do things for each other that are so kind.

they'll support each other through it all while still being little hater bitches as much as bbh may plot scheme and prank we all know he's clingy and always leaves gifts when he's gone too far

and for all the insults foolish throws bad's way he can read bad like a book and is patient will all bad's antics when anyone else would have been driven insane by now

no matter it be platonic, qpr, or romantic or just up in the air you gotta admit they're close

and even if you're not a fan you can count on their character interactions to always be interesting

#qsmp badboyhalo #qsmp foolish #land duo #foolhalo #crossposting my landduo appriciaction post bc i'm p happy with it #i''m sure i missed some stuff but that's ok #remember when qbbh implied they're family #remember when leo said her favorite place was bbh's farm bc they used to hang out there in the early days #remember when bad did the building inspector prank and foolish was shocked the fed could break bbh #remember when bbh could see when foolish was missing leo under his happy facade and offered to hold his hand #remember when qbbh pole danced for foolish to cheer him up after leo's first death #remember when foolish offered bad a place in the dragon tower when the eggs got taken #remember when foolish let pomme and bad keep their vacation home for a while in his home #remember when foolish asked bbh to call him a dirty little muffin #oh wait that was yesterday #ok i'll stop #they don't speak fondly of each other but there's no doubt in my mind that they care for each other #ablate in their own 'have not attachment' immortal way

[deepwaterwritingprompts]

Text: We raise Cockatrices among other magical creatures, for their strange, sometimes useful byproducts. An unfertilized egg will blind anyone who so much as touches it for 24 hours.

#creative writing #writing prompts #flora and fauna #farms #cockatrices #eggs #i had a fun time looking up cockatrice lore for this request #do they wear gloves to collect the eggs? #No. they bred one species of weasel to do this specific job.