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It is so disingenuous when supermarkets have "grown by: Farmer X" on their packaging because it's like, I'll be looking at a pack of strawberries grown by farmer x and he'll actually be the managing director of a fruit farm that employs 2,000 people as pickers!

It feels like the mental idea of what a "farmer" is hasn't caught up with the economic reality of the past 200 years, where people hear "farmer" and think of small, rural, poor, honest (and specifically ethnically and culturally native) subsistance living, and not essentially a factory owner where the factory is made of dirt and manufactures strawberries, staffed by hundreds of cheap immigrant labourers.

Labourers who, it seems, are rarely ever *referred to* as 'farmers', despite being the ones who do the farming, as opposed to being the ones who own the farm.

dyke tv was a nationwide weekly cable television show created to promote the visibility of lesbian culture and to provide news coverage of what mainstream media would not televise. it aired from 1993 to 2005, reached over 6.5 million american households, and was even screened at national and international film festivals.

She protests when she hears that she is thought of as a Don Juan for women. “I am? God, that’s so untrue! I am such a loser. I can’t get a date to save my life,” she says, draping her leg over the back of the couch, smiling wryly. “It’s so tragic.” Aw. “It’s true!” When was the last date you went on? “Last night.” She grins, caught in her tracks. 
-k.d. in Out, 1996
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