Hunger isn’t a game, Mr Starver
Sun 9:05 am +00:00, 1 Feb 2026 2The farmer political campaigns are powering up and won’t be going away.
There might not be any political parties able to represent the farmer interest,though, with Reform looking increasingly like Fake Conservatives Number 2.
Elections are being rigged to bar small English parties such as The English Constitution Party or The English Democrats who would 100% back farmers and all small businesses against the tide of corporate power and corruption. Otherwise smaller parties would be breaking through, as has been proved at Runcorn, and many others crooked election results, where returning officers are delivering pre-ordered election results like crooked referees manipulating results of sporting fixtures.
The media is another area where the pitch is tilted against farming and farmers. Only if farmers take their own PR into their own hands as they are doing will they have a chance of some kind of a fair hearing,and get rid of the taxes that will drive most of them out eventually, let alone supermarket price rigging.
The other squeeze on the industry is the attack on farmland, with housing and energy projects threatening to remove 10% of farmland (at least) in the next few years.
We only produce 60% of our food ourselves as it is. If farms and farmers are driven out, this percentage can only fall further,and in an environmental or other crisis, this could be very dangerous leading to mass hunger.
In terms of farmer PR, the campaign to save farmland could be linked to the campaign to save farmers, also the campaign to save food, along with health, each message reinforcing the other.
No Farmers. No Food. is great as a slogan.
So too is, No Farmers. No Food. No Future.
But is the public listening?
People think of themselves first and others second. So a slogan might work better if it addressed the public’s position regarding food first, then that of the farmers second. They’re rich these farmers, aren’t they? Why do they need to pay less tax and have higher prices?
People need to come at the subject of food first or the lack of it, then they will want to protect farmers rather than be jealous of them, and want to penalise them as having more capital than most people do.
A slogan that starts with
Your Family. Your Future. Your Food?
grabs the attention of the selfish gene better, and does not need to mention either farmers or farmland while the hook first sinks into the ‘flesh’ that hunger is the issue, and the mind is directed to be concerned about eating into the future.
Only then as a secondary thought, since your Family’s future depends on food, will people start thinking of where exactly will this food be coming from?
Most people think food comes from supermarkets and many childen today for example have no idea milk comes out of large mottled mammals eating grass between hedge rows.
It is easier to get people to be sentimental about farmland initially rather than farmers, who suffer from blackwashing in the media.
People are sentimental about the countryside and also of animals obviously, which is often used to promote veganism and promote factory made foods. So make the second step in the food/hunger campaign, not the reducing number of farmers (even though farmers are pushing out the message) but the reducing amount of land.
No land for food is logically of greater concern than the independent minded farmers, who look like an alien race to most city dwellers, whose main concern is keeping up with the Joneses.
Enter the falling numbers of farmers into the equation as the last consideration, not the first, or even the second, as does the slogan No Farmers. No Food.
Address the consumer at the start – as with ‘Your Family’.
Go first into Lack of Nutritious Food/Hunger/The Future
Next talk about disappearing Land.
And then talk about disappearing Farmers.
Maybe something like this.
Your Family. Your Future. Your Food?
Don’t Go Hungry.
Preserve our Farmland.
Protect our Farmers.
The phrase that grabs is ‘Don’t Go Hungry’. Use it, my wonderful farming friends. It’s just sales technique to talk about your customers’ needs before your own, much as farmers are justifiably angry.
The townies, for all their ignorance about farming, know a thing or two about sales techniques, so steal their best tricks and use them to power up the save farming campaign.
Do we want Starver to win, or the farmer?
Hunger or reliable healthy food?
If we sacrifice the food supply, we will all pay a heavy price.
Money won’t help when there’s no food.
Hunger isn’t a game, Mr Starver. Protect Our Farmers.
Excellent post, farmers are the salt of the earth and deserve the full support of the public, who don’t know the half of it
Farmers have been under government and corporate [same thing] attack for decades now, family farms particularly so. Made even worse by the execrable EEC/EU and it’s totalitarian, anti faming, centralisation. And the blind rush to “Globalisation” by the bat shit crazy elites that run the show. All of them totalitarian, centralising, socialists – for everybody but THEMSELVES
Thing is that family farmers are INDEPENDENT, they cannot be controlled so easily. And the Technocratic Corporate Managerial State wants CONTROL above all else. If they had their way then all food would be corporate poisonous mush that came out of a chemical factory. All the better to kill you with my dear….
I grew up on a small farm and we lived an idyllic life (apart from Dad who worked non-stop – though he was very happy). We enjoyed freedom that could only be imagined by our town-dwelling friends. We had little money and I couldn’t understand why they needed to buy things all the time as we roamed the woods and fields accompanied by our dogs, and couldn’t have been happier. Mum was not so convinced, coming from the City, crying because we couldn’t afford to eat out, and she wanted a rest. Many of us were affected by the farm sprays but we didn’t realise this until we grew up. Modern farmers are more aware of the risks, and many are moving to organic methods, using robots to weed crops with satellites directing them to the exact point each seed is planted.