Blue Heron Farm: Here's their statement if you don't want to go over to Twitter

Fuck. This one's going to sting, but add another company to our boycott list. x.com/TractorSuppl...

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Here's their statement if you don't want to go over to Twitter

I've asked my husband to get online and figure out how much we spend there a year before I write my letter to the CEO.

Also, I have several articles in this magazine/book thing that they carry. I'd be honored if you'd go in there and steal a copy.

Attacking gay folks and then still expecting to be selling into the goat market is an interesting set of marketing assumptions.

😂

I am 100% behind you and fuck TSC but I need to take a hard left here. Dairy Meat Fiber Friendship and...more? I need to know about the "more" quite badly please 😬 Yoga? Lawnmower? Circus routine? Um...gloves???? So many possibilities! (Also goats are the GOAT)

We could no longer talk about the 'more' because woke

Ohhhh, sexy times...of course!

Honestly, yes on the lawnmowing. Well, landscaping really. For instance, Himalayan blackberry is an invasive nuisance around here, and there are a few firms that will rent you some goats to eat all the blackberry vines on your property. DOT uses them a lot along freeways.

There’s an entire magazine about goats? *subscribing*

I do not have a goat, and live in Big City - but I grew up with a big goat who would headbutt me and terrorize the geese. I loved her bc those geese were assholes.

all geese are assholes & I applaud this goat

I generally agree with you (I respect their dick head nature and adore them for it). But might I present the fancy exception to the rule? Meet the Sebastopol Goose. They'd fluffy and sweet. Basically the least goosey goose that exists. I want some real bad.

Sebastopol Geese | Watercolor Creek Farmwww.watercolorcreekfarm.com Breeding quality Sebastopol geese in North Carolina. Goslings are available seasonally.

Yes. My shepherd had a very short list of things that did not like to be herded. Geese were at the top. That was a hard lesson.

That goat was the Greatest Of All... something 🤔

Her name was Fredrika, if that helps

I may just do that.

Supportive folks should go elsewhere to learn about proper techniques for milking and breeding

All of the articles can be accessed for free at hobbyfarms.com

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That’s one beautiful goat right there!

A sanctuary farm near here had a meeting w their Branch Mgr to tell them why they’re pulling their $65k/yr. Apparently as of yesterday the employees had no idea this statement existed, so it came as an unwelcome shock to them at that location as well. That route might carry weight too?

The statement is dated three days ago, so it seems to be a pretty new thing.

Good idea. We'll do the same.

As with entire nations pulling their energy contracts with Russia this will be a hassle & take time, but once new supply chains are established you won't have to go back. Johnny Fuckwhistle who got amped up over a Fox prime time segment and his $15 plastic tub purchase will not compensate for them.

It's telling that they seem to believe that the only rural America that matters is the white rural America.

white straight male rural America

White straight male bigoted America. This old cishet white guy will never darken their door again.

I guess they don't think any of their customers are non-white or a part of the LGBTQ community?

Or women

Or know that climate change is real.

Oh, come on. People in rural areas aren't really that invested in the weather or environment. /s

Honestly this is the part that really flummoxed me. They want to focus on what’s important to rural customers, but emissions and climate aren’t? That protecting the VERY THING that helps ag flourish has become a political football is baffling to me.

(The rest of it is disgustingly too, I don’t mean to downplay it, but almost every facet of actual rural life depends on climate. Not just the crops but insect populations and pollinators, erosion and soil depletion… like. Shouldn’t that be a #1 concern for EVERYONE?)

Maybe their main customer base is white guys who drive big pick-ups that never get dirty?

Or just, you know, whites who aren't bigots?

Wow their version of rural American priorities sure sound fucked

Imagine deciding that not reducing carbon emissions was in the interest of rural people. GTFOH

I'm tryibg to figure out: a) How you can priotitize land and water conservation without considering carbon emissions? and b) How long before they drop the land and water conservation, too?

Especially rural residents who live next to a region dominated by petrochemical industries. There’s a reason MD Anderson hospital is located in Houston: large population exposed to high levels of air/water pollution.

It’s idiocy. (I know you know that; I just cannot.)

They read Hillbilly Elegy and think it's realistic and that they now Understand The Rural Vote.

I saw on FB yesterday. It’s bad business. You are cutting a huge swath of folks out for a fixed market of old dying people

I can't get over what awful business this is. And we know that they know what they're doing by releasing a statement about it instead of dropping things quietly.

They're really betting on the ivermectin crowd

Consumers have the power of a choice! No one has spent more time promoting this message than #JuddLegum

It’s so insane. Not just deciding to drop these things, but also putting out this statement as a giant FUCK YOU to the left. Did they get a new CEO recently? Wild.

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