GMN":bl5yskx3 said:
I found out today, I was talking to a lady who said her Dad was involved in farming his whole life. I was thinking milking cows, no, he worked as a manager at a grocery chain, was in charge of setting up milk displays-not really farming. She then said oh we never lived on a farm, just in the city, then asked me if I milked I said yes, she asked how many times a day? What do you do with the milk?and a whole lot of questions i thought the answers were pretty obvious-guess not. Just wondering if anyone else thinks the public on a whole is clueless about dairy farms.other farming?
GMN
Sure, especially when city slickers think that horned cows are bulls, or that polled bulls are cows. :roll:
I've even had someone tell me "there's no such thing as dairy bulls!" Yeah, and where do Holstein cows come from, outer space?? :help:
Not to mention people telling others that milk is made of cow pee and pus.
People just don't know, and most of the time they don't care or have the time to know. And when someone does try to educate them about agriculture and the like, it seems like it goes in one ear and out the other. Either that or else they'll just never understand it at all.
The worst part of being stereotyped as a "farmer" (I've come to loathe the word, btw) is that most people who think they know about agriculture believe that we're in it only for the money, and base their reasons on why the people who raise animals treat animals inhumanely like they do, which, as we all know, is not true at all.
Why can't people start targeting these big corporations who are causing all this mess? Why does the general population have to target the struggling lone farmer for all the bad things that happen that the media likes to hone in on like buzzards on fresh road-kill? Why haven't people started realizing that these food-producing factories and big major corporations are what's poisoning them and making them fatter?
These animal-rights vegans critisize the dairy and meat industry for all the health issues and obesity rates that have gone up over the past few decades when they could be focusing on the big corporations for polluting the water supply, making sugar, fat and salt far more popular than it should be in junk food and fast food, and making the more healthy produce and meat products more expensive than they should be. After watching that documentary Food Inc., it makes you wonder why these monopolizing co.'s are making junk food that takes a lot of manufacturing and ingredients to make them, far more cheaper than, say, organic lettuce or potatoes that were grown with just soil, sunshine, moisture and a little bit of natural fertilizer.
Just my thoughts.