Multiple Texas Farms Shut Down After ‘Almost 100%’ Of Workforce Vanishes Overnight
In a stunningly swift overnight change, some Texas farm operations had to shut down after losing virtually all of their workforce, an exodus triggered by the increase in immigration raids and increased enforcement. The ripple effects of these raids are the gift that keeps on giving and will be felt nationwide: unpicked crops are now left unharvested, livestock were left untended, and rural economies are on edge.
The reason is simple: an increase in immigration enforcement, including high-profile ICE raids, shook Texas farm workers to their core. The news filtered fast that workers—regardless of legal status—chose safety over a salary.
Farmers, who had been working with their crews for decades, described the loss as “devastating” and “unprecedented.” This is alarming as most farms are founded upon immigrant labor, both legal and illegal, creating a domino effect for the food system as a whole.
When farm animals are suddenly left untended, their health and well-being deteriorate rapidly. Due to a lack of care that otherwise diligent workers would respond to, they become prone to undiagnosed illness, malnutrition, heat stress, or injury. Further, milk yields and breeding performance suffer drastically, while disease outbreaks increase as animals become overcrowded and stressed.
Moreover, relocated herds can lead to overgrazing, resulting in soil erosion, loss of native ground cover, and reduced biodiversity. This potentially decreases the land’s fertility, degrading local ecosystems. This kind of habitat modification affects both wildlife and future agricultural productivity, which has far-reaching consequences that impact the animals, the land, and the overall ecological balance that they help sustain.
When farm workers vanish, the effects are felt far beyond the fields. Livestock is untended, crops go unpicked, food production declines, and food prices dramatically increase. In Texas alone, where specialty vegetables and fruits must be hand-picked, worker shortages jeopardize entire harvest seasons.
This results in fewer foods on grocery store shelves, higher prices for families nationwide, and a greater reliance on imports. Threads on Reddit and YouTube are already predicting price hikes and empty produce shelves.
Texas farm shutdowns are a blow to the national economy. Rural Texas is built upon agriculture, and when farms close down, the ripple effect is felt in trucking, equipment, marketing, and even schools.
https://animalplanethq.com/multiple-texa...overnight/
In a stunningly swift overnight change, some Texas farm operations had to shut down after losing virtually all of their workforce, an exodus triggered by the increase in immigration raids and increased enforcement. The ripple effects of these raids are the gift that keeps on giving and will be felt nationwide: unpicked crops are now left unharvested, livestock were left untended, and rural economies are on edge.
The reason is simple: an increase in immigration enforcement, including high-profile ICE raids, shook Texas farm workers to their core. The news filtered fast that workers—regardless of legal status—chose safety over a salary.
Farmers, who had been working with their crews for decades, described the loss as “devastating” and “unprecedented.” This is alarming as most farms are founded upon immigrant labor, both legal and illegal, creating a domino effect for the food system as a whole.
When farm animals are suddenly left untended, their health and well-being deteriorate rapidly. Due to a lack of care that otherwise diligent workers would respond to, they become prone to undiagnosed illness, malnutrition, heat stress, or injury. Further, milk yields and breeding performance suffer drastically, while disease outbreaks increase as animals become overcrowded and stressed.
Moreover, relocated herds can lead to overgrazing, resulting in soil erosion, loss of native ground cover, and reduced biodiversity. This potentially decreases the land’s fertility, degrading local ecosystems. This kind of habitat modification affects both wildlife and future agricultural productivity, which has far-reaching consequences that impact the animals, the land, and the overall ecological balance that they help sustain.
When farm workers vanish, the effects are felt far beyond the fields. Livestock is untended, crops go unpicked, food production declines, and food prices dramatically increase. In Texas alone, where specialty vegetables and fruits must be hand-picked, worker shortages jeopardize entire harvest seasons.
This results in fewer foods on grocery store shelves, higher prices for families nationwide, and a greater reliance on imports. Threads on Reddit and YouTube are already predicting price hikes and empty produce shelves.
Texas farm shutdowns are a blow to the national economy. Rural Texas is built upon agriculture, and when farms close down, the ripple effect is felt in trucking, equipment, marketing, and even schools.
https://animalplanethq.com/multiple-texa...overnight/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
