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by coliveira 3061 days ago
Crops are not capable of suffering. Another publication that spreads the idea that inanimate things can suffer, while the true suffering is experienced by workers.
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Suffer, intransitive verb, definition 2: to sustain loss or damage.

(https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/suffer)

This only shows that the practice is widespread, not that I should go around saying that things suffer, when in fact they cannot do that. This is especially insensitive in a context when there is real human suffering.
It is just the hn title that is terrible. The article has the following title "California Crops Rot as Immigration Crackdown Creates Farmworker Shortage".

Somehow the hn title manages to put the blame with the Mexicans.

I pedantic point, but I think crops probably qualify as animate.