Good grief, can't we ever get a break from politics?

I work in agriculture. It is the financial institutions and the food industry corporations that have caused the changes you lament, not "drug" "left wing" or whatever it is you are talking about. Never before has a population been so alienated from and ignorant about their sources of food. The social forces that caused that are commercial, not cultural as you imply. It is a complex issue, one I have studied my entire life, and reducing it to some silly and provocative little political agenda does a disservice to all of us, the growers and the eaters.

90% ag in area but run by the 10% who dwell only in the cities? In the United States we call that "democracy," and actually rural areas have disproportionate representation. Acres don't vote, people do. Largely rural low population states get more representation in the federal government than cities do, yet whine, whine, whine is all we hear from them.

Agriculture serves the public, the public does not serve us in agriculture. That principle is core to the mission of farming. Those of us who are actually growing food represent about 2% or so of the population. A lot of the "rugged" rural types in their shiny pickup trucks, those who are whining all of the time, are suburban refugees, opting for the "country lifestyle" yeehaw. They are a big part of the problems we face, and not part of any solution.

Your "convenient American" versus "true American" imagined dichotomy is disgraceful and it contradicts the very "values" you claim to be defending.

Mike