Source: ROBESONIAN, 5/4/20


To the editor,
I always felt a little silly pushing for agriculture and trying to make my family and friends understand just what it takes to produce food in modern-day America. Farmers still get up early and still come home late, and their families adapt, without grudges, to time without them. Those same farmers, who sacrifice day in and day out, are often and wrongly criticized by well-fed people who have never stepped foot on a working farm — criticized by people who have the time to be critical because they aren’t busy pulling weeds in their vegetable gardens or losing sleep over the loss of an animal.

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