Wednesday, February 12, 2025

'We'll All Have to Go Vegan': Wisconsin Dairy Farmers Fret over Immigration Crackdown

Business groups warn agriculture sector will collapse without foreign labour

Posted by retort at 09:15 AM | 43 COMMENTS | permalink

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40% of the farm workforce are undocumented immigrants. Farmers voted in obscenely high numbers for Trump, who said he was rounding up these workers and shipping them out. So why would farmers vote to hurt themselves? And why haven't they been charged for harboring fugitives? (You know why.)

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-- D. Earl Stephens (@dearlstephens.bsky.social) February 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM

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Farmers shot themselves in the ass.

As for the rest of MAGA----Perhaps milk and cheese are also fond memories along with eggs.

Learn about edible pants growing in back lots.

Pick them before your neighbors can.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-12 09:36 AM

Whiners.

Amerikkka is getting greater as we speak.

#2 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-02-12 09:38 AM

#1 Zed, edible pants? Freudian?

#3 | Posted by MBlue at 2025-02-12 09:51 AM

School your children to do farm work. That will solve the problem.

#4 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-02-12 10:01 AM

Farmers Drop BRUTAL ATTACK on Trump, MAGA Panics

www.youtube.com

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-12 10:39 AM

Democrats showing their support for making plantations great again.. Maybe bring back the company store too?

#6 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-02-12 10:52 AM

#6
Flag: Infinite Monkey Theorem Syndrome

#7 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-02-12 10:55 AM

How is "vegan" a solution to this?

#8 | Posted by YAV at 2025-02-12 11:10 AM

All the fired federal workers can fill the void.

#9 | Posted by fortfisher at 2025-02-12 11:11 AM


How is "vegan" a solution to this?
#8 | POSTED BY YAV

He's implying its not a choice. You won't have any bovine products. ergo the only thing left is vegan, or maybe pescatarian.

#10 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-12 11:19 AM

You are a typical MAGA POS. Truly.

#11 | Posted by YAV at 2025-02-12 11:19 AM

Although I meant #11 for #9, It's applicable to both...

#12 | Posted by YAV at 2025-02-12 11:20 AM

All the fired federal workers can fill the void.

#9 | POSTED BY FORTFISHER AT

MAGA is giddy at the imminent prospect of widespread economic disaster.

Despite all the bitching and moaning over the price of groceries, they appear to have decided that they can do without.

#13 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-12 11:44 AM

via GIPHY

#14 | Posted by fortfisher at 2025-02-12 11:48 AM

ll the fired federal workers can fill the void.

#9 | POSTED BY FORTFISHER

I think that you're going to find out how really spoiled you've been for all of your life.

#15 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-12 11:50 AM

Message to USA-ID workers that lost their "jobs" - learn to milk cows?

#16 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-02-12 12:26 PM

Message to USA-ID workers that lost their "jobs" - learn to milk cows?

#16 | POSTED BY VISITOR

1) They will when you will.

2) Enjoy your milk-less Cheerios and don't forget to blame the well-educated.

3) I really do think that you people are going to find out how really spoiled you've been for all of your lives.

#17 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-12 12:40 PM

How is "vegan" a solution to this?
#8 | Posted by YAV

Food is such crap that peeps will prefer starvation.

#18 | Posted by censored at 2025-02-12 12:40 PM

I don't feel sorry for them at all. I live in WI and almost all farmers were pushing for trump. Well, you got 'em, enjoy.

#19 | Posted by bat4255 at 2025-02-12 01:02 PM

Even if you're Vegan, undocumented workers are the ones that pick our crops, supply the food. They don't just work in meat packing plants. If Trump has his way and could and does deport all undocumented workers, our entire food supply would be gone in 2 days.

#20 | Posted by YAV at 2025-02-12 02:08 PM

OH, and Trump is demoting ICE officials and worse because the deportations are 'taking too long'.

Enjoy it, peeps!

#21 | Posted by YAV at 2025-02-12 02:09 PM

That fat stupid ---- has no idea how anything works.
He's a poster child for dementia.

#22 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-12 03:01 PM

It'll be fine, there's about to be a fresh crop of Americans who have no real skills looking for work after being fired from the Federal Government.

#23 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-02-12 07:01 PM

#23 - When I called you LuftWaffles I had no idea how fitting a nickname it was.

#24 | Posted by YAV at 2025-02-12 10:05 PM

When I called you LuftWaffles

You nailed that one.

#25 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-02-12 10:07 PM

Well Yav, it's either they pick crops for minimum wage or sit at home all day thinking they're going to the camps that Legally and Zed made up in their minds.

#26 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-02-13 12:30 AM

Besides, exercise will do the Left some good, and they'll get paid too!

#27 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-02-13 12:32 AM

with 2 million prisoners in US prison we have free farm labor. Bring back the chain gangs and whippings.

#28 | Posted by fortfisher at 2025-02-13 12:55 AM

exercise will do the Left some good

So by "the Left", you are referring to these Trump-voting Republican farmers from Wisconsin?

#29 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-02-13 01:20 AM

#29 From what I'm told, they are going to have to learn how to crop.

#30 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-02-13 01:25 AM

So by "the Left", you are referring to these Trump-voting Republican farmers from Wisconsin?

Posted by REDIAL at 2025-02-13 01:20 AM | Reply

MAGA Trumpers are too stupid to understand the situation sadly. They'll never get it until we're all starving for food. Oh well I guess.

#31 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-02-13 01:34 AM

Hahahahaha you know it was some leftist POS that said this

#32 | Posted by THEBULL at 2025-02-13 06:13 AM

LOL hey "D Earl Stevens" let's charge every politician not in favor of deporting illegal immigrants with harboring fugitives. It would only make sense.

#33 | Posted by THEBULL at 2025-02-13 06:17 AM

Florida's all up in knots over this. The reason? Agriculture and construction are heavy employers of undocumented workers.
It's hilarious how they are tripping all over each other and lying about it.

DeSantis refusing to enforce the law, the law watered down so that the employers of the undocumented can't really be charged with anything, so to placate the MAGA idiots they arrest a handful of undocumented here, and handful there - and make a big show of it.

In the meantime they fight with each other over "solutions" that do nothing to hold those actually responsible accountable:
Agriculture and Construction. The two biggest contributors (90% goes to the GOP here) to their coffers.

But you MAGA folks just keep on believing the bullshht.

#34 | Posted by YAV at 2025-02-13 01:24 PM

Florida's all up in knots over this. The reason? Agriculture and construction are heavy employers of undocumented workers.
It's hilarious how they are tripping all over each other and lying about it.

DeSantis refusing to enforce the law, the law watered down so that the employers of the undocumented can't really be charged with anything, so to placate the MAGA idiots they arrest a handful of undocumented here, and handful there - and make a big show of it.

In the meantime they fight with each other over "solutions" that do nothing to hold those actually responsible accountable:
Agriculture and Construction. The two biggest contributors (90% goes to the GOP here) to their coffers.

But you MAGA folks just keep on believing the bullshht.

Posted by YAV at 2025-02-13 01:24 PM | Reply

Of course they are. If we didn't have the Undocumented immigrant labor we would collapse. That's facts. That's not hyperbole either.

#35 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-02-13 01:35 PM

I'm just curious, have none of you on the left bothered planting your own garden? It's very easy to do, I grow vegetables all year long so I don't think I'll be starving.

#36 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-02-13 03:14 PM

Vegan is rather labor intensive.
Didn't realize gardening was a left/right proposition. Despite having crappy soil I manage to put up some fruits and veges every year. The soil is getting better but that has taken a lot of work.

#37 | Posted by mattm at 2025-02-13 03:31 PM

I'm just curious, have none of you on the left bothered planting your own garden? It's very easy to do,

Even a caveman like MATTM can do it!

Vegan is rather labor intensive.

How so? Gardening might be, but being a Vegan is "labor" intensive?

#38 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-13 03:47 PM


Agriculture and construction are heavy employers of undocumented workers.
It's hilarious how they are tripping all over each other and lying about it.

This is what both the left and right wanted, no? To cut the supply of employment to undocumented workers.

What interesting to me is that Americans let it get into such a state that its now a national security issues.

People that supported undocumented immigration basically put the nation in a high security risk situtation.

#39 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-13 03:50 PM


So by "the Left", you are referring to these Trump-voting Republican farmers from Wisconsin?
#29 | POSTED BY REDIAL

It will take Madison WI to participate, all those Lefty students taking Marxism 101 can learn as my parents did.

In China we called it the "Down to the Countryside Movement"!

Good luck with that.

#40 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-13 03:52 PM

This is what both the left and right wanted, no? To cut the supply of employment to undocumented workers.

What interesting to me is that Americans let it get into such a state that its now a national security issues.

People that supported undocumented immigration basically put the nation in a high security risk situtation.

Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-13 03:50 PM | Reply

If you deport every Undocumented immigrant from the United States the economy will collapse. Talk about a high security risk.

#41 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-02-13 04:44 PM

How so? Gardening might be, but being a Vegan is "labor" intensive?

Tell me you haven't cooked a vegan meal without saying the actual words.
It does take a bit more effort than roasting/grilling a slab of meat and a baked potato.

#42 | Posted by mattm at 2025-02-13 05:05 PM

Now Wisconsin won't have excess slave produced cheese to flood the canadian market.

#43 | Posted by Scotty at 2025-02-14 03:09 AM

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