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When is a Farm not a Farm?
It seems like everyone wants to call themselves a "farm" these days. Apparently, corporate marketers think that we will buy more packaged and processed food if the illusion is created that it is more closely connected to farming then is often actually the case. Television ads show actors pretending to be farmers skipping through cornfields while an announcer solemnly narrates with a string of buzz words about "old-fashioned values" and "small town folks" and how important the "earth's bounty" is to them.
The goal seems to be to create an "image" that is as far away from the reality of the company as possible. Folsky, nostalgic scenes of the "way life used to be" are everywhere.
Ironically the pastoral images and traditional lifestyles portrayed and represented by these companies are actually threatened by the forces of increased concentration of our food supply under the control of fewer and fewer corporate giants.
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