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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
Kurt Russell offers ‘no apologies’ for traditional hunting lifestyle
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.