“Farmers are not being paid to destroy crops.”
Farmers have been paid to NOT grow crops for decades. Why should we not believe the farmers now?
Why should we not believe farmers now? Because it’s a joke put on social media to show how gullible people are.
Here is the guy who started the joke on tiktok with his explanation. Warning language!
You make sense. What you say brings to mind the methods of the abuser. The idea is to get the target population to incrementally greater degrees of abuse until they’re ready to accept all manner of inappropriate treatment. There is so much goofball legislation extant that it’s difficult to be surprised when something like this pops up. Taking into consideration the disastrous flooding of China’s farmland, it’s only reasonable to presume that there will be shortages.