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Originally Posted by lisarea
Oh, yeah, me too. I don't really know much about the farming lifestyle. I grew up in New Jersey, where my dad was a systems engineer.
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I grew up in the San Fernando Valley, then Monument, CO. There were a few people with farms for their own use in CO, and some 4H and Rodeo types, but no commercial farmers.
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But farmers don't know fuckall about people like us, either. And there are more of us.
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I just question the basic premise that we should care what farmers think any more than we care what janitors or schoolteachers or secretaries think.
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I think, originally (may not be the case now), the farmers not only fed us all, but provided a major export for the country as a whole. They were seen as the backbone of our economy and society. I have no idea if they are still that important today, or if the preferences are holdovers from a different time.