Please stop believing that farmer bashing is ok. [View all]

Aren't we better than that?

Why would anyone want to grow food, or for that matter anything in this country, when the lack of respect and appreciation by the public, as evidenced by the consistent farmer bashing that goes on, is so overwhelmingly offensive and hurtful?

People are going to have to start transferring their negative energy against farmers into sweat equity if they want to eat, feed their families, their pets, their horses, and all of the rest of their food source animals. Not to mention enjoy their medical and recreational cannabis.

It's a glaringly evident truth that farmers and especially the people who support the farms through planting and harvesting, are getting sick of the abuse. They're disappearing.

Which makes more sense, if you're served a meal that's not to your liking? Killing the cook or asking that the meal be changed into something more pleasant and acceptable?

If government bailouts are your beef, it's the government that you should be bashing not the farmers.

The insensitivity of those who find it acceptable to bash a group of individuals who already have one of the highest suicide rates* in the world is as callous as it is counterproductive.

Recent events, it has been predicted, will soon lead to the prices for produce doubling. The negative effects on our financial security and our health will be significant when we are suddenly faced with a possibly irreparable disruption of our food supply.

Couple that with the collapse of the food safety and health services systems and a broad picture of a sick and hungry society begins to take shape.

It's not far from a fitting metaphor of a society already sick through the expression of meanness and starved of morality.

Farming isn't just a gift to humanity. It's a necessity.

Should we look forward to the day when the general public realizes that they personally couldn't grow the necessary crops on their own to create a single roll of toilet paper?

Please support farmers and their families. Please lift them up. It doesn't cost anything to offer a kind word. The rewards far outweigh it. You might save a life and it could be your own.

Thank you.


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