Farmer Politics: Jane Austen Tried To Warn Us

Jane Austen's books, like Pride and Prejudice, have a lot to say about how people and rural life actually work. The social climbing, scheming, and power games of the landed gentry actually explain a lot about agriculture today! Link to open letter to Smithfield & other meat companies: "Stop trying to ban US states from passing animal welfare laws!" https://cause.link/uproot-bacon-0626 The uncut Patreon version is LIVE: https://www.patreon.com/farmtotaber/p... Find me at: Patreon:   / farmtotaber   TikTok:   / sarahtaber_nc     / sarahtabernc   IG:   / sarahtabernc   Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/sarahtaber.b... Twitter: https://x.com/SarahTaber_bww https://substack.com/@farmtotaber 0:00 Introduction: Jane Austen wrote about the landed gentry 1:09 Character breakdowns: Mr & Mrs Bennet 3:44 Lady Catherine de Bourgh 4:39 Mr Collins 6:42 Today's rural US is FULL of Mr Collins types 8:48 Mr Darcy 10:11 Landed gentry in the US & how they're behind "corporate farming" 13:14 Why agribusiness is predatory toward farmers, and some farmers still like it anyway! 15:11 How the US's landed gentry rebranded themselves as "just family farmers" 18:31 What agribusiness gets out of partnering with today's landed gentry 19:46 Meat politics, the 2026 Farm Bill, & how the landed gentry are trying to help meat companies ban animal welfare laws (even though a lot of farmers like them!) 21:48 What you can do about it 22:19 How meat companies use the landed gentry's thirst for social climbing to get them to do lobbying for free 23:35 Why is Smithfield leading the charge against animal welfare laws? 25:03 Conclusion: Landed gentry vs democracy Transcript! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K... Thanks to ‪@uprootcenter‬ for helping independent farmers tell their story! Opinions & analysis in this video are my own, and do not represent UpRoot or any other individual or organization. Links to hog farmers who updated their farms to meet humane standards & are loving it: https://civileats.com/2026/05/28/the-... https://sentientmedia.org/farmers-sup... https://sraproject.org/press-release/... https://www.venable.com/about/news/20... A quarter of US hog farms have already switched to more humane methods (actually 27%): https://farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2... Annual income tables that cover Regency England, showing that the Bennets' 2,000 pound/year income put the in the top 0.2% of English households for income: http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/Linde... #agriculture #agricultural #farm #farming #farms #farmer #farmers #farmlife #farminglife #farmerslife #farmerlifestyle #farmbusiness #agribusiness #animalwelfare #animalhealth #factoryfarming #corporatefarming #farmingtraditions #meat #livestock #livestockfarming #farming101 #homestead #homesteading #homesteader #homesteaders #pork #porkrecipe #humanesociety #raisingpigs #pig #raisingpigs #broiler #broilerchicken #smithfield #CAFO #feedlot #swine #swinefarming #janeausten #prideandprejudice #regencyromance #regencyera #corset #costume #costube #history #historyfacts #historylovers #historicalfiction #senseandsensibility #literature #literaturelovers #literaryanalysis #romancebooks