your food my food

I always get a little thrill out of catching a fun little post to someone's facebook status.  Today's thrill came from a friend that  went to school with, although she was quite a few grades ahead of me, but just a fabulous person then and now.  She now heads up a group of students that deal with Agriculture, otherwise know as FFA or Future Farmers of America.  I hope they all become a Farmer or at least a Farmers Advocate because I like to eat; all things, hummus, red meat, fruits, veggies and chicken: hatched and unhatched.  The little nugget of fun I found today was a link to a site operated by Mike Rowe, the face of Dirty Jobs, and it details his experience in addressing the 82nd National FFA convention and the results of addressing that mass of adolescents.  Take a look at his thoughts and explore how you feel about the Future of Agriculture...

http://www.mikeroweworks.com/2010/05/the-future-of-farming/

I had the opportunity a few months ago to listen in and judge the delivery of the FFA creed at our local chapter where two of my friends are advisors.  As an organization they are looking to revise the creed as it is now written, why and to what I'm not sure, but probably to address the same reasons that members would prefer to be called FFA members rather than Future Farmers of America (reference above link).  I think that is too bad, I like Farmers, I know a lot of them and they are hard working, self-sacrificing, and truly individuals to be respected.  Truly individuals that are out on a limb, both in a figurative sense and in a legislative, special interest group, threatening kind of way.  Which again is too bad, I bet those same people like to eat as much as I do.