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• Qwel@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Regardless of nationality, don’t expect your billionaire overlord to have ethics if it comes at the cost of a 0.7% revenue loss

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  • KeenFlame@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    No, you have to expect your government to do that, which is why almost the entire world is not hyper capitalist choochoo trains

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  • Coleslaw4145@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What billionaire overlord? Irish agriculture is made up of over 100,000 independant farms, and a each farmers income is on average about €40-50k.

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    • Qwel@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That sounds impressive, I never heard about it. Do you have some resource about it? I don’t know how to search for it and Google is, like, you know

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      • Coleslaw4145@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Sure:

        Sustainable Food Systems Ireland

        • However, Ireland continues to be the largest net exporter of Beef in the Northern Hemisphere

        Teagasc (Agricultural Output

        • There are approximately 137,500 family farms in Ireland with an average size of 32.4 hectares per holding according to the Farm Structure Survey of 2016.

        Teagasc (Farmers Income)

        The report, highlights that average farm income is forecast to reach €48,500 in 2025

        Ask About Ireland

        The scale of our farming output relative to our domestic population of 4.9m people mean that Ireland exports some 90% of its net beef output, making Ireland the largest beef exporter in Europe and one of the largest in the world (Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine, 2019). Similarly, 85% of dairy output is exported.

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