Reply #27: Yep, that's why I don't buy processed cheese food

[theHandpuppet]

My feeling is, why not pay the same price and get cheese and milk from family farmers? I buy less cheese but when I do buy it's a real treat with real flavor.

I have a cousin who has operated a small dairy farm that's been in his family for well over 100 years. You honestly couldn't pay me to do the kind of backbreaking, sunup to sundown darn hard work he does, day in and day out. Funny, most folks in this country don't balk at guys who get paid multi-millions to hit a ball or a million an episode to make a TV show, but folks who work their butts off to put food on our tables shouldn't expect a living wage?

Even with those huge factory-food operations how many of us talk about how those workers are treated even as we decry how laborers are treated in China? How many folks have ever been to a meatpacking plant or harvested a field by hand, bent over in the hot sun? And who is doing this work? Illegals, because Americans want cheap food. They don't mind paying outrageous prices for toys and gadgets but they want free milk and bread. And the government knows as long as they can offer the masses the cheap butter they expect then they won't ask questions and won't take a look around and start seeing how fucked up things really are.

Sorry... off the soapbox now. This topic is just a bit of a pet peeve of mine.