What do you think of, when you think of farmers?

[General Ludd]

And this is nonsense about americans and europeans having different views of farmers. It's an urban distinction, not a geographical one.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Originally posted by General Ludd
I should also add that when I think of farmers, I don't think of industrial farmers. They are evil. Especially the cattle and poultry farmers.

Exactly. The majority of western farmers are industrialists in wellies, not some noble bucolic friend of nature.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Re: Re: What do you think of, when you think of farmers?

Originally posted by GhengisFarb

I would think the European concept of farmers to stem from the fact that in most of its history farmers were peasants. Thus leading to looking down on them.

Crap. They were, and are, the wealthy landowners in Britain.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

That's true, by "farmers" I'm thinking of "family farmers" not "corporate farmers."

Corporate Farms make me feel uneasy.

[chequita guevara]

No banana farmer option?

[Sandman]

It stems from the fact that Americans think that, somehow, they feed the world, despite this being patent nonsense.

Additionally, the national culture in America (and France) puts a lot of emphasis on food; they probably think that they are doing the world a favour by dumping their 'superior' cuisine on developing countries.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Re: Re: Re: What do you think of, when you think of farmers?

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp


Crap. They were, and are, the wealthy landowners in Britain.

Hmm, and here I thought the landowners were nobles who fought while the peasants were the ones who worked the land for them.

My bad, I hadn't realized the wealthy landowners worked in the mud while the peasants rode around in armor on horses and fought the battles.

Bit of misconception on my part then.

[Jamski]

Inbread hicks is the closest I can find to "freeloading subsidy eaters who grow crap no one wants and then get paid to burn it"

And my opinion counts double since I'm a Euro

-Jam

[The Mad Monk]

Originally posted by GhengisFarb
That's true, by "farmers" I'm thinking of "family farmers" not "corporate farmers."

Corporate Farms make me feel uneasy.

Let me restrict this to "family farmers"; I wasn't thinking of factory farms.

[Last Conformist]

Family farmers, where I come from, are overprotected subsidized folks who use industrial methods. Subsistence farming died a long time ago.

[Harovan]

Re: Re: What do you think of, when you think of farmers?

Originally posted by GhengisFarb
OPEC - "WTF? Quick, we must learn to eat petroleum....."

Just go to the supermarket of your choice. I can assure you, 75% of the food you'll see is made of petroleum. Ok, ok, may be slightly exaggerated, but anyway the part is increasing. The question remains, what will we eat after we run out of oil?

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Last Conformist
Subsidized stupid bastards with too much money. Protectionist subsidized stupid bastards with too much money.

* Last Conformist hates the CAP.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by General Ludd
I should also add that when I think of farmers, I don't think of industrial farmers. They are evil. Especially the cattle and poultry farmers.

Just like modern steel mills are evil. They put blacksmiths out of work.

[Az]

Farmers: people who grow my food.

[Wezil]

My family own a family farm. "Hard working and honest" I guess would be my choice, but just "normal" people would be a more suitable option.

They don't "dump" on foreign markets, they aren't "ecoterrorists", and they don't oppress their peasants...