Posted on 07/26/2017 2:45:39 PM PDT by artichokegrower
Most of us don’t spend our days plowing fields or wrangling cattle. We’re part of the 99 percent of Americans who eat food, but don’t produce it. Because of our intimate relationship with food, and because it's so crucial to our health and the environment, people should be very concerned about how it’s produced. But we don’t always get it right. Next time you’re at the grocery store, consider these 10 modern myths about the most ancient occupation.
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I don’t see any idea listed as a myth that i had ever held, and all but a few I had never heard before,
Are these myths some of of those beltway things that we in flyover country are too dumb to know?
Gosh. I remember going out to my Uncle’s ranch to wrangle those little doggies.
Dashhounds I believe they were.
Hard to lasso them because they were so close to the ground.
Most of the time we just used some salad tongs to grab them.
And then it was off for them to be sheared.
Dashhound wool is some of the finest wool in the world. Ranks right up there with cheese mold for warmth.
Then, we’d rub their bellies and send them back out to roam the prairies frolicking and chasing Water Buffalo.
” I wonder how much of the food that makes it to grocery stores is from corporate owned farms.”
100%. Even small farms are “incorporated”. Some grocery chains make it a point to utilize small, local farms. The overall contribution of product to the total that small farms provide to the store is minuscule.
The outfit that farms tomatoes close to us sells directly to a regional grocery. It’s several hundred acres of locally grown tomatoes but the outfit is owned by mexicans and run by mexicans. No “local” people are involved at all.
Simplot may be family owned but it is a corporation and corporate farming. They are huge in the Snake River Valley and apparently the world. They are everywhere you turn in Idaho.
JR Simplot farms about 83,000 acres. I would actually consider them a corporate farm even though they are family owned. I buy crop protection materials from their retail outlet here in California.
I wonder how many people know where the largest ranch in the U.S. is located?
It is not in Wyoming, Texas or Oklahoma.
Florida.
Probably that size would be counted among the 30+ million acres of corporate farms.
‘Privately held’ wouldn’t necessarily mean ‘family farm’. There are varying limits on the number of people that can be involved and how close a relative they need to be. Ag law is considered highly specialized for a reason, and no doubt smart lawyers look to take most advantage.
All the Lays chips you eat were grown in northern Michigan.
I agree with your observation.
I have seen farmers all across America.
They are the coolest people. At times they meet up in the local restaurant or convenience store. Chit chat.
That is how I learned that a cow can freeze standing up.
It’s alarming how charming it is to be a-farming...
“consider these 10 modern myths about the most ancient occupation.”
Make that myth number 11. Hunting and gathering predates farming by many millennia.
A farmer. A man outstanding in his field.
We’re eating hamburger from Mickey Mouse?
The horror. The horror.
the govt counts almost anything as a farm...we have a small garden on 5 acres and I had to fill out one of those farm censuses a few yrs ago....
have on cow and a couple of chickens and the govt probably considers your place a "farm".
my bro was worked for Simplot for many years..he basically covered a lot of the mid Atlantic in sales...
Boss, you just made me laugh bigtime!
And to think there are those who would make that statement with all sincerity.
speaking of ranches, has anybody ever gone to the XLT ranch free bbq that they have each August?
I thought they grew iron ore in Northern Michigan?
I think those farmers in Northern Michigan need to make up their minds.
They can grow iron ore or potato chips. Not both.
I don’t want to open up a bag of Lays chips and see a bunch of nails in there. OK, maybe barbecued nails but not regular nails.
Corporate Farms are distinguished by relying soley on guest foreign cheap labor, while uprooting the social fabric of society, with mass immigration.
Scum.
If you cannot pick your own crops, you have too much farm.
Feudalism is failure.
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