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"Steeped in years of talk around college campuses and in stylish urban enclaves about the evils of factory farms," twenty- and thirty-something urbanites are getting some real dirt on their trendy Carhartts, the article says.
I guess this doesn't seem particularly new to me. Coming from the more rural environs of Chapel Hill, NC, hip young people working on organic farms is nothing new - my 22-year-old brother, for example, used to work part time in a nightclub and part time on a humane, hormone-free hog farm, and delighted in the fact that he sometimes got paid in pork shoulder. Plus, how many Baby Boomers don't have a story about working on an organic farm in the 1960s?
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3-17-2008 @9:45AM Baron said... I'm not sure how many "organic" farms there were in the 1960's. Coming from a family very involved with farming, not to mention the ag-chem business, the 60's saw people using some of the worst possible chemicals. The stuff we use today doesn't hold a candle to some of that junk. That aside, I'm very glad to see these "hipsters" running "organic" farms of their own; one less hipster to have to deal with in the city. :) I can see why the comm, I mean democrats, national health care plans are so popular now. Hard to get health care on the farm (I know I sure didn't have any when I was putting my 80-100 hours a week in while working on one)
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