The OG Devil's Agvocate 🇺🇸 (aka Michelle)
@MGigger
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Small Time Farmer by night, Science/Ag Educator by day, Crappy Agvocate. $hillin for BigAg, BigPharma, & BigPapa. #NoShitShow #makeupanARAargument
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I'm that small family farmer activists claim to love until they hear I support modern ag technology.
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I collect all cell phones and iPads from the kids at night and keep them in my room.
Last night those little ***holes all set alarms to go off at various times throughout the night.
I’m impressed with their ingenuity and team effort.
They’re all grounded.
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Unhappy with her figure, Bertha decided to try CrossFit, but completely misunderstood how to train with a tractor tire.
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Please send videos of yourself milking these cows.
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OMG. Whoever these guys are, they’re recreating scenes from Tiger King with a cow 😂
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Fun fact: the rubber that lines fire hoses is “held together” with Stearic Acid. An animal by product.
🖐🏼 🎤
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This is why I live where the air hurts my face.
Down here in South Georgia we don't let a groundhog tell us about spring and winter. Mr. Cottonmouth says spring is here... UGA Extension
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That’s...ummm...not how it’s done Scott.
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Here people, this is your organic, non-GE, pesticide free corn. Enjoy. Would you like salt?
http://t.co/kYziHc5Y0P
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@_Quibus
Because they’re kids and they need boundaries. By me giving parameters they’re more likely to use these devices correctly when I’m not around to supervise.
I teach high school. I see the sleep deprived faces lately of kids on their phones all night.
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“Don’t get your daughter a horse” is the joke. But horses have given me so much purpose & were the “gateway drug” back into ag after my parents left the farm
My sweet Jamie girl passed today. I was there when she was born & I was there when she passed. The journey was an honor
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Still the coolest scene in a horse movie.
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I have 4 kids, a job, &a farm. My kids play: cross country, volleyball, softball, basketball, soccer, & track. They also do 4h &FFA.
Sometimes we eat out
Sometimes we eat out of a box
Sometimes we have microwave dinners
Sometimes we BBQ
But they are fed&happy
No shame in that
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Me: *discussing my possible pasture raised pork project
Potential customer: “Pigs should be out in the open eating grass, as god intended”
my brain:
don’t say it
don’t say it
don’t say it
don’t say it
don’t say it
don’t say it
me: ”Pigs are omnivores. They’ll eat humans”
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Apparently what turned PETA vegan is they didn’t understand refrigeration and “best by” dates.
Last I checked vegetables rot, too
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I don’t need to keep a kitten
I don’t need to keep a kitten
I don’t need to keep a kitten.
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I’ve seen horses in school buses and goats on kids laps, but never this. 🤷🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
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Dad passed this afternoon not long after my last post. I am thankful it was fast and that he’s reunited with his dad, mom, and siblings.
I’m not ready for a world without my dad.
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@jsavvas
@LauraPrepon
It’s important to remember that the 90% of corn you’re mentioning is “dent corn” a completely different type of corn than the sweet corn that’s on your dinner plate
Dent corn is grown on land that can’t produce human grade feed & is fed to livestock making healthy protein for us
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Saving pigs from slaughter...one drowning at a time. 🤦🏼♀️
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A friend sent me this, apparently it’s going around.
All I can think is “that’s a very diverse herd”
Imma wait for the outrage.
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This calf is my spirit animal.
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Sometimes Twitter really delivers.
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I worked my ass off to buy my farm. It’s small, but it will grow.
Being called “All hat, no land” by someone who probably has had everything handed to them their whole life is just precious.
Even more ironic when their bio proclaims their Christianity.
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@alli_hessel
I understand your perspective, my children are 8-13, too young to make that decision
I teach high school & I see the sleep deprived faces all day of pupils who, admittedly, were up all night on their phones
They’ll have the opportunity to earn the privilege when the time comes
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COVID shut down the vending machines at our school.
My son, seeing an opportunity, is selling sodas & chips out of his backpack.
I’m fairly confident he is making more a day than I am, but he won’t share his spreadsheets.
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Ok, politics aside, this is funny.
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Took me too long to realize this.
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Shamelessly stolen from Facebook.
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How about they make a real statement and cancel the Awards banquet saving 100-1000s of domestic and international flights, many who use private planes?
The Golden Globes have announced they will not be serving meat at the award show's meal to raise awareness for climate change - throwing animal ag under the bus as a 'major cause of climate change'. Frustrating.
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I was working out in my driveway, a few hundred yards from the road. A car of teen boys drove by, cat called me....and said my daughters name.
They. Thought. I. Was. My. Daughter.
40% happy I still got it.
60% grossed out.
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Accident on I-84 today. (Not my pic).
Need to show this to every person who think safety chains are worthless.
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In high school I was made fun of for wearing boots, wranglers, and listening to country music.
It’s funny watching those same people 25 years later post selfies at a Luke Bryan concert wearing weekend warrior boots.
I have a better memory than Pepperidge Farms.
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I wasn’t born into farming. My parents both grow up on farms & decided it wasn’t for them. I spent years working & learning in various Ag jobs & as a “farm wife” to buy my dream. My 20 acre farm may be the size of someone’s “lawn”, but it’s mine and earned through my hard work.
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Seemed like a good day to pull this shirt out.
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Most likely just stole some kids 4h project.
Rescuing baby pigs from a slaughter house today and giving them a new home 🙏🏾
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This is why I live where the air hurts my face
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60 people trespass, harass, and steal. But, no, the farmer is creepy 🤦🏼♀️
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Came home from my late meeting to find my 8 year olds in their beds, the 11 year old reading Harry Potter, and my oldest watching Planet Earth 2. They’d voluntarily put all their devices in my room without complaint.
If that’s wrong, I don’t want to be right.
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It’s funny that the people who donate and do the most community service do it under the radar, but those that do the bare minimum blast it everywhere.
Stay humble, it goes farther.
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I bought a farm. With my own money.
So, fuck you.
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Do people really believe there are no gay individuals in agriculture?
As a parent of a gay child who wants to work in ag this shit burns me. Grow the fuck up. Love your neighbor.
I try to stay pretty politically neutral here, but this bugs me.
@JohnDeere
you want to really pull a move like
@budlight
did?
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Dear hunters:
I ❤️ you. But could you stop with comments like “well, at least my meat wasn’t factory farmed&pumped full of hormones” when justifying your reasons for hunting to others?
No need to throw producers under the bus to justify yourself to people who won’t agree anyhow
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COVID-19 was a hot topic in classes today. One kid (a senior) interrupted me so many times to ask q’s about it that when he interrupted w/ “Will I die?” I replied with “Currently you’re more likely to die from murder since you keep interrupting me.”
I’m sure I’ll hear from admin
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My daughter just tried to steal a swig of beer when we weren’t looking.
It was Jeff’s spitter.
I don’t know if Jeff’s laugher or her screams are louder.
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Rare look at the farm every Animal Rights Activist grew up on.
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My father is facing his third surgery to deal with an ongoing issue from when he had mumps at 2 years old.
He’s now 80.
Hear that anti-vaxxers? Mumps is not a harmless childhood disease that you get over. Life long complications from the disease exist!
Vaccinate!
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Got to love social media.
Woman posts a video, dudes have to tell her all the ways she’s doing everything wrong.
I just realized I never posted trucking videos to twitter. Enjoy
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I don’t know who originally said this, but they nailed it.
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For years “College for All” has been pushed on American high school grads. They were told the only way to a good career was a 4 year degree.
These same people now wonder why debt is so high.
All while we have a shortage of good skilled labor that requires less edu & pays well
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This may be a hard pill for some to swallow, but you can support the 2nd amendment and also think that protestors showing up with tactical gear and rifles to a state capital are a bunch of idiots.
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I have been asked many times why I engage w/activists.
We’ve ignored them as a whole for too long & this empowered them into thinking they’re invincible.
Thus, they take our pictures & exploit them. They show up at youth livestock shows & scare our youth.
I will never be quiet
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Media: You need to stop eating meat to save the planet.
Also media: OMG, a celebrity wore the same article of clothing multiple times.
Kate Middleton re-wears blue Alexander McQueen coat for fourth time
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Raising livestock is dirty and nasty for the environment and takes up so much land. Go vegan this spring for the environment.
#makeupanARAargument
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I wonder what this guards the gates of.
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Every January baby vegans flock to twitter, empowered by their first Veganuary, to tell livestock producers that they need to “educate themselves”.
By March, 84% have left twitter. Ironically, the same as the vegan attrition rate.
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New iPhone: "Can't wait! It's only $100 more than last years!"
Head of lettuce up 5 cents at grocery store: "Those fucking greedy farmers"
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“I don’t eat honey because it involves the enslavement and exploitation of bees” he says while drinking almond milk and eating avocado toast.
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Funny that the people who protest livestock being raised in barns & eating grains are the same people that go home to tiny apartments where their dog is trapped and fed vegan dog food.
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My dad’s in the hospital and it’s not looking good. I’m flying down in the morning.
Hug your parents, call them, tell them you love them.
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@JRFitzgerald61
@KevSab12
*You’re.
#momminghard
Totally messing with you. 😂. Grammar nazi moment over
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When someone in a coffee shop tells me that we should get all our food locally.....
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I have an awesome student who is battling cancer. Last week he contracted COVID, this week it caused a stroke.
I’m at the point I want to punch anyone who dismisses the seriousness of this disease.
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A PSA from me,
@mgigger
, co-signed by
@SmithAgConrad
and everyone else tired of stupid rumors and small talk.
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Here’s the thing twitter: when a politician passes that you didn’t agree with you can turn off the politics for a second and mourn a life. Otherwise you’re just as bad as the insults you’re throwing at the deceased.
It’s called Character.
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Becky: “OMG. Modern farms are so unnatural. It should be against the law.”
Also Becky: “Oh, look, a tulip farm. Let’s go and take pictures in the miles of flowers to post on Insta”
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I keep hearing how kids can’t afford to move out of their parents home because rent is too high
I remember making $4.25 hour minimum wage&living with 5 other people in a small house so we could make the $700/mo rent
Situations weren’t different, I guess our standards were lower
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A few years ago I got a lot of shit for going back to teaching. One giant turd insulted me w/ the “those that can’t do, teach.” I saw how the fruit market was going, &then w/ the closure of my co-op I knew if I was going to keep my land we needed other income.
Best decision ever
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Anyone else feel like they need to be doing something & being productive every waking minute or they’re a total loser?
My inability to relax is exhausting me
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At home, in bed with my claustrophobic bandage. Starving but can’t open my mouth. My teeth hurt, my lips hurt, even my right nostril is burning.
If you have any spot you’re worried about, get it checked. Sooner means smaller surgery.
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I was told earlier that my avatar is false advertising & that I’m a one trick pony. My name is Michelle, I’m a mom to 4 active kids, & I’m 40 years old. I teach, I farm, I volunteer, I coach. That sounds like a lot more than one trick.
At 40 I can still squat 200 lb &run 5 miles
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Hates “factory farms”: can’t define it
Wants to support small farmers: pushes local legislation & politicians that make this impossible.
No matter the size, 99% of producers are “doing it right”.
Shut up and act.
It’s really, really a small percentage that are doing it right...how can we as consumers demand that there’s more of that and less of the factory farm stuff? -
#NataliePortman
raises an important question about how farmers responsibly raise the animals that people eat.
#LSSC
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If my account is nuked tonight, I know the tweet that did it.
I have no regrets.
Since my kid came out I’ve done a lot of self reflection & examined how I was raised & what my priorities are. I’m proud to say I’ve loved my children & they are awesome.
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Today I’ve learned that a cow slowly starving to death is better than being her living and being milked on a farm.
Vegan Apologetics be crazy.
Goes to prove it’s not about the animals itself.
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They don’t spend their life in the parlor, bro.
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Horse chick: “I only feed Precious the best non GMO feed. GMO is bad as it causes gut problems in cows”
my brain:
don’t say it
don’t say it
don’t say it
don’t say it
don’t say it
don’t say it
don’t say it
me: ”Owning horses doesn’t make you a livestock expert.”
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This sweet little girl came home today.
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My kid hit 4 home runs this weekend! 💣💣💣💣
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Well, that’s an interesting place for beef animals to go looking for dairy calves.
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I have a degree in Animal Science from
@ucdavis
I have worked in dairies, feedlots, horse breeding, research, education, & now farm myself.
I will not be bullied by anonymous cowards for being a part of the most safe & affordable food system in the world.
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My dad once told me “When you grow up you will be astounded at how dumb most people are.”
After my time on twitter talking to anti-____ activists, I can honestly say that technology has not made people even dumber, it’s just given them a way to air bad ideas to a wider audience
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Sorry, I’m keeping my Nikes.
If I had to get rid of everything I’m supposed to protest in 2018 I’d be going to work naked tomorrow.
Bigger fish to fry, friends.
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I just giggle at those who think that the only person that matters in Ag is the farmer. So many people & Ag professions help get food from field to table and they’re all an important piece of the puzzle.
Don’t let your head get too big.
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Stopped by the Humane Society. Wound up taking home 3 unadoptable barn cats and a geriatric mutt. Sucker.
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Had to do a headshot for Oregon Teacher of the Year process. I couldn’t do a typical studio portrait.
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A visit to the “lady doctor” (stop reading if easily offended)
1- Exposed breasts where every centimeter is felt
2- Cold, metal speculum inserted & looked up with a light
3- Manual pelvic check
After:
Doctor: “Well, I’ll just step out and give you some privacy.”
🤨
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Pulled my kids from our local livestock show today. Thanks to COVID, kids are supposed to drop off their animals and an adult will take care of it and show the animal until the online auction. I don’t see much educational benefit from this. We already found buyers.
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These are finishing beef cattle, bro. Not dairy cattle about to go through the rotary.
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