"Tomato!"
Posted on 02/21/2014 6:05:17 PM PST by Olog-hai
At the USDA’s annual Agricultural Outlook Forum on Thursday during a panel discussion about attracting young people to the farming industry, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack asked a panelist how she would convince an inner city “minority” child who “doesn’t even know what a tomato is.”
“Emily, I want you to envision an inner city child,” Vilsack said to Emily Oakley, interim director of the National Young Farmer Coalition. “Could be African American, could be Hispanic, could be Native American, Asian, whatever, a minority. You’re talking to that child. That child doesn’t even know what a tomato is much less what you are talking about,” Vilsack said. “I want you to convince that kid that he ought to think about farming.” …
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Creepy that they use the name “People’s Garden” . . .
Same thing happened to me back in the 60s when I was stationed at Fort Knox. I was riding into Louisville on a bus with a guy from NYC. As we passed a farm he told me those were the first real cows he had ever seen. When I started giving him a hard time he informed me before the Army he had never left the Bronx and the Bronx Zoo didn't have cows.
The situation such kids find themselves in was helped along by the libs in power. In spite of that (and in spite of their need for a traditional family life), I suspect that they know what a tomato is at the very least.
While I think it’s absurd to believe it’s common for children of any color to not recognize common foods, he does make one point....someone who has no experience with a lifestyle is very unlikely to want it for themselves.
Nobody knows unless they try it first.
Sadly, that can apply to evil lifestyles too.
I do not regard ivory tower assessments with any credibility whatsoever.
"Tomato!"
>>Vilsack can teach ‘Minority’ kids about wildlife ...<<<
He doesn’t need to; their lives are wild enough already.
Wild fights
Wild shooting
Wild crime
Wild parties
Wild ... .
I live in a rural area overrun with white New Age Lefties. We have the most organic farms per capita of anywhere in the US. Many of these farms are run as successful small businesses grossing $1.5M+ annually.
The children of these people and the friends of their children refuse to do the farm work. They would all rather work at a fast food joint or a movie theater. Their parents and the other farmers are literally forced to hire Central Americans through the government’s farm labor program.
I have heard the same *never again* from the local children of generational traditional farmers. The town kids bully the farm kids. You can make a young girl cry by telling her she will end up marrying a farmer. They can’t move to a city soon enough.
Sounds like another case of “white privelege”.
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