Thu, 09 Dec 2004

Farmers are free of the Walt Disney syndrome

This is one of the best essays I've run across on the realities of life on the modern family farm - note that the author works off the farm full time to makes ends meet. It's not a romantic life, but it's a real one.

Good old Walt, in his efforts to entertain, gave all his animal characters human personalities, and people have come to think of this as reality, as they have no other experience of animals to go on. What's more, they buy their meat at the grocery store; there is no connection between steak and the real world of raising cattle to butcher.

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