The language of World Farming
by Mitchell & Richardson
- crop v.
- cut prices by paying overly large subsidies to certain farmers
- farmhand n.
- employee paid a pittance because, officially, they don't exist
- food-chain n.
- long-distance transportation of animals for slaughter
- grim-reaper n.
- (colloquial) suicidal farmer
- subsistence n.
- abbreviation of ‘substandard existence’; experienced by Majority World farmers who cannot compete with Western agribusiness
- oxymoron
- common agricultural policy
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