Remember that ad a while back for some kind of salsa? A Texas cowboy jumps up in horror to find out that his jar came from New York City. "NEW YORK CITY!" all the cowboys around the camp fire shout in alarm.
Hey, we're kind of feeling like those cowboys that the Farm Aid benefit concert this fall is going to be held out East again, this time in a Boston suburb. Last year the event was held in NEW YORK CITY, and the year before in Camden, New Jersey.
Yeah, the good people of NYC and Boston should be enlisted to support family farms. But, jeepers, most farmers left the poor rocky soils of New England a couple hundred years ago and headed west to homestead.
If Farm Aid wants to keep in touch with most of the nation's mainstream farmers, how about getting back out west of the Hudson River again sometime soon? And the foodie rhetoric is starting to seem like city salsa to me. Tone it down a little at least--we can have a safe, healthy food supply without every portion being organic and boutiquey, can't we?
In announcing the date yesterday, co-founder John Mellancamp said, "New England was built on the strength of independent family farmers. We can honor that independent spirit by joining Farm Aid to grow the movement that is changing the way all of America eats." Changing the way all of America eats? So again, a hot dog will be hard to find at Farm Aid. Corporate sponsors are Silk Soymilk and Horizon Organics.
Mellencamp, Neil, Willie and the boys: When you're done in Boston, come out west and get some mud on your boots again.
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rest assured--there will be hot dogsat the Farm Aid concert. but they will be from family farms.
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