• MonkderZweite@feddit.ch
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    5 months ago

    Ah yes. I was once in an apprenticeship by a lutheran farmer. Always wondered, why are you thanking god for the meal we put our own work in?

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      5 months ago

      It has been and still is common for crops to be randomly blighted. There is less of it now with science but good crops require good weather even now so farmers do play the lottery every year no matter how hard they work. It’s why “losing the farm” is such a common trope.