Food for Thought

A couple of years ago I started using the the term "My Farmer" when talking about the person who grows my food for me. At first, it seemed even to me to be rather contrived. It just did not seem to roll off the tongue at all. And to others I'm sure it may have even seemed pretentious. But really, these attitudes towards those words only demonstrate how far removed we have become from our food. And in my opinion, this is an extremely unhealthy situation for our society.

You do not have to think long to find other examples of where this phraseology is used - we do it all the time. We all talk about "my doctor", "my dentist", and even often you hear "my lawyer". And nobody thinks anything of it. "my mechanic" and "my plumber" are also extremely common terms that many of us use quite regularly. We use these words because it shows that we've developed a special trust relationship with those people when performing those services for us. It shows that we do not want some anonymous person doing those things for us - we want someone that we've developed a trust relationship with. When it comes to a medical issue you are experiencing, do you shop around looking for who is having the best rates this week? Is that what you do when having your car fixed? Maybe some of us do, but most of us would sooner pay a bit more - but still a fair price - to have our car fixed by someone we trust.