I second this. US agricultural industry really wants people to believe “farmers” are just kindly salt-of-the-earth types tending to their fields and its been super powerful propaganda. Hell, even implying that “real” America is an agrarian society has done numbers.
Go to any grocery store in the US. Go to the produce section and look around for romantic imagery of farmlands, happy cows, or giant stalks of wheat. It’s right there in the consumerism.
How do they think this much fucking meat ends up in their gaping maws? There’s some easy to ballpark math if they consider how much meat they eat alone and multiply that by an estimation of the US population and that cute little farm shown in the comic with one sheep and two female cows is pretty logically not how it’s going. Look at a grocery store shelf or realize fast food is hamburgers and it falls into place real easy. I figured out commodity fetishism when I was like 8 from reading Calvin and Hobbes and got a better understanding later, I get others didn’t but to be an adult that doesn’t understand things have to come from somewhere is really something else.
Romanticism is a hell of a drug
I second this. US agricultural industry really wants people to believe “farmers” are just kindly salt-of-the-earth types tending to their fields and its been super powerful propaganda. Hell, even implying that “real” America is an agrarian society has done numbers.
Go to any grocery store in the US. Go to the produce section and look around for romantic imagery of farmlands, happy cows, or giant stalks of wheat. It’s right there in the consumerism.
How do they think this much fucking meat ends up in their gaping maws? There’s some easy to ballpark math if they consider how much meat they eat alone and multiply that by an estimation of the US population and that cute little farm shown in the comic with one sheep and two female cows is pretty logically not how it’s going. Look at a grocery store shelf or realize fast food is hamburgers and it falls into place real easy. I figured out commodity fetishism when I was like 8 from reading Calvin and Hobbes and got a better understanding later, I get others didn’t but to be an adult that doesn’t understand things have to come from somewhere is really something else.