Comments on: Have City People Lost Touch?

By: Emma C S

Emma C S — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:47:17 +0000

Very interesting, as usual. I’m a suburban kid so agriculture is another world for me. I still prefer rain to heatwaves though. *not a summer person*

By: Figgins

Figgins — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:12:16 +0000

This piece is great, thank you!! We are a country area slowly and sadly getting grown up. It’s frustrating to have more and more people here say they just go to the store for food…But where does it come from?! I am more sensitive to the farmer side of life due to my grandparents having a dairy farm while I was growing up.

By: Ruby Hawk

Ruby Hawk — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:03:12 +0000

All farms have gone from our area. We used to have many small farmers who grew, cotton, corn, peanuts, soy beans, Chicken houses were rampant,but no more. I don’t know when I have seen a field of cotton or corn, or a chicken house. We do have small and large farms south of us but not in north Georgia.I would be afraid to guess where our food comes from.

By: Inna Tysoe

Inna Tysoe — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:06:30 +0000

Interesting article. But I agree with jharmon, it's not that "city people" or "country people" have lost touch but that people tend to focus on what's important to them personally.

I also am not sure that "city people" "look down their nose" at "country people". I mean, you could just as easily argue that the converse is true--but again, I don't think it's so much a matter of "looking down one's nose" as it is a matter of what is important to you personally.

It's a people thing; not a country/city thing.

Regards,

Inna

By: s hayes

s hayes — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:04:47 +0000

great article – your points about terminator seeds are particularly interesting and worthy of note – this is one of the biggest threats to our planet driven by greedy profiteers

By: Lostash

Lostash — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:32:02 +0000

How very true. I also like the comment liking tourists to crops…very relevant to small communities who also rely on tourism to survive.

By: Deep Blue

Deep Blue — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:14:07 +0000

That’s the irony about life these days, many people have to really work hard to earn while the rest may simply touch the finished product and they are earning twice as much as the people who did the heavy toil.

By: jharmon

jharmon — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:00:09 +0000

I was raised in tobacco country, with a little dairy. We had goats and chickens, a few hogs. Raised all kinds of crops for family use.

I've lived in both rural areas and big cities in my 40 years. I find both enjoyable for different reasons. But it bothers me the disconnect between rural and urban life that has developed, mainly along political and social lines.

I don't think it's a matter of one side being out of touch. If anything, both sides are out of touch with the other. It's just a matter of perspective. People tend to focus on what's important to them in their area. What's relevant to the farmers isn't relative to someone living downtown, but what's important to that person downtown probably isn't important to the farmer.

By: Ramalingam Subramaniam

Ramalingam Subramaniam — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:17:29 +0000

Nice account on the plight of the farmers.Thank you

By: Daisy Peasblossom

Daisy Peasblossom — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:46:15 +0000

In a sense, tourists are another kind of crop; unseasonal weather kinda hurts that one, too. However, this does highlight the problems of the small farmer in today’s world. There is a way around that last problem, however; and that is to purchase heirloom seeds which have not been genetically altered.