I'm really happy that you read "The Omnivore's Dilema" and care about where your food comes from, but I've had enough of phrases like 'Farm to table', 'plow to plate', 'seed to sucker willing to pay 40% more' and 'horseshit to shithead.' The whole romantic notion of the hippie organic farmer selling you produce with love included at the farmer's market is as real as the moon landing. In fact, I'm not all that down with the farmer's market. There, I said it. Bunch of tote-baggers paying too much for vegetables is all I'm seeing.
Farming is hard, dirty work and I'm glad someone other than me is doing it, but that doesn't mean I have to act like that person is somehow a hero. For the most part, farmers are the people who voted for Bush both times and want women to carry unwanted babies to term. Think about that next time you're on some salt of the earth rant. Plus, they wear overalls. Overalls haven't been cool since Gerardo was singing "Rico Suave." People who wear overalls and are around shit all day, just aren't my kind of people. Sorry.
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Eddie - "horseshit to shitheads" is BLOWING MY MIND. (I wish I could bold AND underline that.)
Do you hold this much disdain for people who ride up to Amish country for jams and fresh baked goods?
I'm an Amish farmer jocker. I love their dairy. Amish cottage cheese is to die for. I do wish they would bathe more and their Kimchi isn't that great.
Eddie - I also just learned 2.2 seconds ago that the amish have the highest rate of bipolar.
i think me you meirav and my live in need to travel up there and get some frsshly churned butter alla manic farmer.
Eddie - I also just learned 2.2 seconds ago that the amish have the highest rate of bipolar.
i think me you meirav and my live in need to travel up there and get some frsshly churned butter alla manic farmer.
I was a democrat UNTIL I became a farmer. I remember how i used to live in the city and waste money and think queers and baby killers were chic. Then my grandfather died and I moved to rural Puerto Rico and started farming, and before I knew it I became a gun toting Ron Paul supporter.
Also, farming is sexy BECAUSE its hard, dirty work.
I'm sure anything in Puerto Rico can be sexy. My dad worked on a farm in Ireland pulling carrots and cabbage out of the semi frozen ground and his hands got all jacked up from it. He's quick to dispel any misguided notions I have about rural idealism.
i didn't say the work was sexy, but i know from experience that some women find a dirty sweaty exhausted man hot.
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