Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk

Re:Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk by NewJazz on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @06:20PM (#49456712)

I'm sorry, it is not appropriate to presume that cars are less necessary than food? Hmm, what about water, is that one more important or are cars still top of mind for you?

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Re:Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk by xp84 on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @06:39PM (#49456880)

I think the point being made wasn't literally that cars are more important than food, but more that for most Americans, you can't really get by without store-bought food and a car. This is just fact.

A few lucky people live in the densest urban areas where car non-ownership is totally fine, nice even. For the rest, it's horrible and no one would choose it. A trip to the grocery store in the suburbs could take 30-45 minutes each way in 90º heat (and in half the country, with humidity too) is terrible - and think how many times you'll have to go to the store if you're buying only what you can carry 3 miles. Also many school districts provide no buses, so now you're walking kids to and from school in all weather. Bikes are a thing, but the roads aren't always safe and it still sucks in weather.

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Re:Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk by NewJazz on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @08:40PM (#49457910)

For most Americans, you can't really get by without store-bought food and a car. This is just fact.

For all animals on earth, you can't really get by without food. This is jus a fact.

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Re:Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk by kulahan on Thursday August 27, 2026 @04:52PM (#49471102)

Wait until you hear about how much harder it is to grow a car than to grow a tomato.

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Re:Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk by jasomill on Thursday August 27, 2026 @01:23AM (#49460118)

True, but even the most car-centric socities could adapt to a shortage of cars by means less drastic than a culling of the population through widespread famine and death.

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Re:Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk by LoganDark on Thursday August 27, 2026 @04:31AM (#49461624)

My electric scooter works just fine for getting around a city. You can carry a bag or two of groceries home with just a simple backpack. Visit the store frequently enough and you don't actually need a car. In my area you don't even need a license to ride the scooter on public roads.

I have a car (and a license) anyway for comfort reasons, but I keep the scooter in the back for situations like distant parking. Works pretty well for me.

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Re:Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk by kulahan on Thursday August 27, 2026 @04:50PM (#49471083)

This is basically the point I was making, yes.

I'm shocked to hear many school districts provide no busses though... I guess I always assumed that was some legal requirement? Like you have to send your kid to school, so we have to provide transportation if you're outside of a certain range.

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Re:Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk by xp84 on Friday August 28, 2026 @05:28PM (#49484441)

Nope! I was shocked too, I grew up in a poor area that is borderline rural. Wealthy areas simply assume everyone have a car. The district only owns a small fleet of short buses, which are only offered if they assign your kids to a special-ed program at a school other than their assigned school.

Example: The assigned school for my neighborhood is 1.5 miles away by the shortest possible route, and requires crossing a 7-lane arterial.

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Re:Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk by oatmeal1 on Thursday August 27, 2026 @12:55AM (#49459919)

The attitude is unnecessary.

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Re:Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk by NewJazz on Thursday August 27, 2026 @01:49AM (#49460316)

I disagree.

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Re:Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk by oatmeal1 on Friday August 28, 2026 @12:19AM (#49474324)

Then get off HN.

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Re:Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk by NewJazz on Friday August 28, 2026 @03:21PM (#49483103)

No thanks! Pissing people off with my presence is my pasttime.

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Re:Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk by kulahan on Thursday August 27, 2026 @04:52PM (#49471107)

Buddy, just take like 3 seconds to compare how hard they are to acquire. When did everyone on this site get so stupid?

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Re:Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk by NewJazz on Friday August 28, 2026 @03:23PM (#49483120)

We weren't talking about how hard things are to acquire, we were talking about how necessary things are. Your comment is a digression, and as such it serves as a hollow, ineffective insult.

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