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Then you go to the grocery store, and it’s like 90% of the people are just in a pack. They don’t know. They have no connection to food at all. And so it’s very nice. You know, we were raised with it to know that thing that you took is gonna be your dinner meal.
Wyatt Russell
March 12, 2026
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As I have said before, seeing how food is grown and harvested on the farm is an alternate reality. The same applies to the harvesting of domestic animals and wild game. I work in an office overlooking part of a city. There are nearly 200 people in a large office each with huge computer screens each doing their part to prevent, track, and stop bad guys attempting to gain access to our nation’s critical infrastructure. I then visit the farm in Idaho and find the differences incredibly profound.
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I grew up both in a city (the Heart of the Hive™ of SW Minneapolis) as well as out in southern MN farming country. I dealt with both dazzling urbanites and rural rednecks.
The difference in how people view food is (IMHO) a rural versus urban view. The vast majority of people living a city lifestyle have no idea what it is to raise animals with the goal of eating them; they assume that there’s a giant factory somewhere putting out styrofoam based plastic-wrapped chicken and beef for them to unwrap and cook. The vast majority of people living a rural lifestyle know darned well what it is to kill and butcher animals for the freezer and table.
It’s interesting that SO MANY of the differences between peoples is urban/rural. The overwhelming majority of support for the Dem-wing comes from the urbanites while the Rep-wing is supported by the rural folk. The difference is philosophical as well, with urbanites tending far more towards collectivism/statism/authoritarianism, while rural dwellers tend to be far more individualistic and self-confident.
These are broad generalities, of course, but it’s what I’ve observed over the years.
I’m sort of in the middle. Family was middle class professional (dad a university instructor, mom a homemaker). Living in a small town outside the city I got to see farms every day. Food often came from local farms. And one of the neatest experiences was one morning riding to school I watched a farmer assist with the birth of a calf.
Never hunted, never experienced that, but at least I had some notions of where food comes from.
I am in a very similar position as you. My father was a professor in Life Sciences. I became an engineer. But through high school, I worked many different agricultural jobs on several different farms. Most likely based on that experience I have come to the conclusion that the further a person is from the dirt and its vital functions, the more likely they are to embrace unrealistic liberal philosophy. The biggest problem that presents is that they have so little real life experience that they have no inkling how ignorant they truly are. Take some one from a deep rural environment and transplant them to the city and other than them being somewhat uncomfortable, they can survive and thrive. Reverse that and you will find far more people that are unable to cope. That could make for an interesting reality show if it were done with integrity (dang, I forgot that it would be a television show oriented toward those who have no life other than what is on the tube). An interesting thought exercise at any rate and possibly a few would grasp the underlying actuality.
Dunning-Kruger strikes again!
As for the “reality show” about city folk all lost and confused on the farm, wasn’ there something similar with Paris Hilton and some celebrity’s daughter about 10-15 years ago? That and some abysmal show, “I’m a celebrity; get me out of here”?
Because these shows have as much connection to reality as Gilligan’s Island, you know the “Fish Out of Water” theme will be played up, and played for laughs.
Oh, and please — not “Liberal”, “Leftist!” And calling these thugs “Progressive” makes it sound like they are moving us towards something desirable for everyone.
In a perfect world, Learning about how to feed yourself should be a rite of passage and prerequisite to legal adulthood. Before people can drive or vote or make a binding contract they should have to gather or grow their own food for a month or two, including hunting or raising and harvesting and preparing their own fish and meat. It forces one to become acquainted with the most basic facts of survival as an omnivore and human. Some provision could be made for vegetarians I suppose. It would also be a serious eye opener for many men who never learned to prepare their own food. It would help ensure all “adults” were capable of dealing with a fundamental aspect of reality. Sort of an “Outward Bound” or starve, break with childhood and childishness
I think this was part of the reason Mao Tse Tung sent all the urban Chinese to the countryside and all the farm workers into the city. Being that he was a hard core Communist, it was done with a sledge hammer rather than a more gradual approach, but he never was one to miss an opportunity to starve and kill millions of his subjects.