In 1776 They Had No Mounjaro and Still Managed to Overthrow an Empire

Stephanie
Curry
on
Colonial
Appetite,
Pharmaceutical
Wars,
and
the
Founding
Farmers

Diary
of
Stephanie
Curry,

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Magazine
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grounded
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London
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Tuesday:
The
Farmer
in
American
History,
Then
and
Now

The
American
farmer
has
always
been
a
political
actor.
Jefferson
imagined
the
republic
as
a
nation
of
yeoman
farmers

self-sufficient,
morally
grounded,
and
eating
whatever
they
grew
because
that
was
what
there
was.

The
farmers
who
have
declared
war
on
Mounjaro
are,
I
would
argue,
operating
in
a
direct
line
from
this
tradition.
Jefferson’s
farmer
against
the
Crown.
Today’s
farmer
against
the
pharmaceutical
company.
Same
energy.
Different
injectable.

The
Agricultural
Revolutionary

The
Boston
Tea
Party
was
about
taxation
and
representation.
The
Mounjaro
War
is
about
appetite
suppression
and
market
share.

The
History
Channel’s
revolutionary
coverage
notes
that
colonial
grievances
were
economic
before
they
were
philosophical.
The
farmers’
grievances
are
also
economic.
The
philosophy
will
follow.
It
always
follows.

Jefferson
grew
potatoes
at
Monticello.
He
also
grew
many
other
things
but
the
potato
feels
significant
this
week.
He
did
not
have
Mounjaro.
He
also
did
not
have
an
NHS,
a
constitutional
monarchy,
or

Piers
Morgan
walking
off
set,
but
you
cannot
have
everything.
The
revolution
was
fought
on
a
full
stomach.
I
consider
this
a
founding
principle
worth
preserving.