Although I have always lived in a city, my fiancee who's a web designer was raised in the country and lives in a place that used to be a farm! However, he thinks all farmers are rich! Which is ridiculous...grumble grumble grumble.
I grew up in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. There were orange groves that smelled great, there were even small farms near where I lived.
All paved over, for what reason? There were even horses there in the 70's.
All gone. All paved over. All concrete now. All ugly and smog now and illegal immigrants. I guess that's why I support farming totally completely. In fact, I would take it further, I would probably outlaw selling any farmland to developers. Call me a socialist when it comes to farming. I don't care. I want to be sure that there's food on the table for many centuries to come in our great nation. Once the farm land is gone, it never comes back, and it's heartbreaking.
Can't agree with you there. I'm no ecomnomic expert on agriculture, but farmers as well as everyone else needs to stand up on thier own, but to keep them afloat, some help might be OK. The only reason they need help is probably govmint regulations, Including FDA and EPA, etc.
Wow, I think you are the closest Freeper I've ever responded to. 40 miles!