[DanZ]

Who raises the cotton?

Well that depends, in the psst it was the Isrealites until they escaped, then it may have been the Slaves the Mohammedans captured. But today it is the hard working Egyptians who, I have no doubt, sing and dance while they pick the cotton.

But maybe it is all mechanized - the world does move forward

[ROCKLOBSTER]

the hard working Egyptians who, I have no doubt, sing and dance while they pick the cotton.

You mean like:

Well when them cotton balls get rotten
You couldn't pick very much cotton
In them old cotton fields at home
It was down in Louisiana
Just a mile from Texarkana
In them old, old cotton fields back home