You Don’t Want to Work on a Farm and I Don’t Either, but Urban Farming Could Change that Perception

Comedian Stephen Colbert testifies on Capitol Hill in front of the House Judiciary Committee hearing on immigration. (The Associated Press) See article here.

Laugh at Stephen Colbert If You Want To, I Think that Some of Us Would Farm If We Had To, Just Not in the Country Away from the Action

By Christopher
Associated Content
September 27, 2010

Excerpt:

Thanks to Stephen Colbert and a number of articles on farm work we now know what we already know, and that is that most Americans do not want to work out in the fields. So when someone says “I’ll take any job”, make a wager with them for $20 that they won’t last a day out in the fields doing back breaking hard labor. I can almost guarantee you that you will get that $20 back, and if you’re lucky, they’ll actually last long enough on the job to earn the $20.

Who actually works on farms these days? It is not that all of the individuals that work the farm are illegal immigrants, but it would seem that the vast majority of them are. We always talk about day laborers and getting paid underneath the table, but to read the article that I have referenced your average American does not even know how to do that job right. Some would say that we have become a nation that is soft, effeminate, that does not know how to earn our keep and would not know what to do without technological advances. Perhaps we have become too reliant on technology, to be completely honest, I haven’t seen a typewriter in over 20 years and if I write with a pen or a pencil my hand starts to hurt after twenty minutes.

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