IF YOU ATE
TODAY ...
On Christmas
day, just after Christmas Eve, a French breeder posted a tweet on Twitter
saying:
“The head in a daze but always present, farmers work daily to offer the best quality of life to their animals and a French food quality recognized worldwide! On this Christmas day, think to all those who feed you!”La tête dans le coltard mais toujours présents, les agriculteurs oeuvres au quotidien pour offrir la meilleur qualité de vie à leurs animaux et une qualité alimentaire française mondialement reconnue ! En ce jour de Noël pensez à tout ceux qui vous nourrissent !#JoyeuxNoel pic.twitter.com/0pqrdbwx5c— lΞLO LM (@EloLeMailloux) 25 de diciembre de 2017
Curiously
in response to this tweet, proud and kind, but all in all harmless, we find:
@EloLeMailloux Depuis quand que le agriculteurs nourrissent le monde moi je me mourris avec le fric que je gagnée avec la sueur de mon front il serait temps d arrêté de vous prendre pour des cadors— claude marie (@marclaude22) 25 de diciembre de 2017"How long farmers feed the world, me I eat with the money that I won by the sweat of my brow, it would be time to stop considering you as top dogs"
To
what she answered:
@marclaude22 Loin de moi l'idée de faire passé les agriculteurs pour des cadors, juste pour rappeler qu' au quotidien, ce que vous consommerez provient d'un agriculteur 🍇🍓🍅🌽🍞🥐🥖🧀🍗🥓🍟🍝🍯🥛🍾🍷“Far be it from me to make farmers look like top dogs, just to remember that every day, what you eat comes from a farmer. Merry Christmas to you and your family”Joyeux Noël à vous et votre famille— lΞLO LM (@EloLeMailloux) 25 de diciembre de 2017
This small
exchange, polite and educated on one side, lout and stinky on the other side
shows, if it were needed, that in our rich Western societies, the gap is
growing between civil society and farmers. To the point that some people come
to ignore that what they eat does not grow on the shelves of supermarkets.
There is no
food that does not come from farmers' fields, barns and pastures of preeders,
and from fishermen' boats or fish ponds.
We
eat only living products that must be born or sprout and grow before being
harvested or killed.
Thus, all
foods, fresh or processed, raw or cooked, come from this daily work.
Meat, bread,
ready meals, spices, dairy products, fish, shellfish, vegetables, fruits, cold
meats, pastries, confectionery, popcorns, all come from there.
This
is actually not quite true. Water is natural without human intervention, and
salt is a mineral element extracted from seawater or salt mines.
But behind
every food there is a farmer, a breeder or a fisherman, there is work, risks,
fatigue.
This daily
work is the sole guarantor of the diet of the entire population. Yet it is very
poorly known, or even totally ignored, it is daily denigrated in developed
countries.
And
this denigration comes from ignorance, disregard, total disconnection of civil
society from its agriculture.
During these
Christmas or New Year celebrations, many of us were reunited with family or
friends, around exceptional meals.
Remember that behind every meat,
behind every fish, behind every garnish, behind every bottle, behind every
pastry, there is the work of farmers, ranchers or fishermen.
Also
remember that while you were waking up from a memorable night, farmers were already
at work for your meals of next few days.
I wish you a happy new year 2018,
in the respect of all those who work for our well-being.
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