who thinks that this country would be better if there were more farms and less big cities?
2006-07-26 09:43:56 · 14 answers · asked by Brian W 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
God Bless You!!!!! I can't agree more! I hate cities! Farming all the way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2006-07-26 09:45:19 · answer #1 · answered by Jen S 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Haha, well in my opinion, the quality of life in a small town (or farming town) is much greater than in a large city. Also, you can always take a farm and make it a city, but you can't take a city and make it a farm. There's no going back if all our small towns grow bigger and our farms turn into businesses. People that have never lived on a farm or in a small town do not understand, because they have never lived that simple way of life. For those of us that have, it is awesome, and I wouldn't trade it for the world. So yes, the country as a whole would be better (maybe not economically) if there were more farms, because people would get treated better, have better attitudes, and have more respect for nature, hard work, and each other. :)
2006-07-26 16:47:37 · answer #2 · answered by sillyoleme 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that all in all, we have ruined the hardworking, simpler lives people once had. There are many questions and problems that should not exist and yet they do in our society. Families of ten or more were able to be supported and raised by the sweat and effort of one's own hands not so many decades ago. We have created a society that consistently insists that we NEED all these material things in order to deserve the right to have a family, or to get married, or even to survive. Children are being murdered because of what society might think about a pregnancy culminating in the birth of another family member to one who doesn't have a house or a car, but maybe an apartment. Then there are the issues of pollution from big industry and the cancers from its development, the fact that moms can't afford to stay home with their children to do the work of raising them, and obesity. Obesity was very rare when one had to actually physically work to earn a living. Children now complain about taking out the trash once a week, and lay in front of the tvs that society tells us we need to have, and get fat and develop health problems children shouldn't have. Young men and women wait to marry until they are "financially ready" and their careers are started, then pay thousands of dollars for fertility treatments to have children at ages when fertility is naturally declining. Or on the flip side, they can not bear the thought of abstaining from sex until they plan on marrying years down the road, so they "accidentally" concieve a child, it doesn't fit into dad's plans, and he moves on to the next woman and leaves his child to be supported by the community. These are all tragedies and complexities brought on by our own choices and desires, and the society we created. But then again, without these changes, there would not be the technology that we all benefit from. And the jobs for those too weak and not hardy enough to put in a full day's physical labor would not exist. I don't think farming in itself is an answer, no, but perhaps a return to a simpler way of life.
2006-07-26 17:10:52 · answer #3 · answered by alone1with3 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I whole heartedly agree with you here. The best years of my life were spent on my grandparent's farm in Wisconsin, back when I was a kid. My fondest childhood memories involve feeding the animals, cutting and raking hay, combining oats, picking corn, working in the huge garden, and taking a walk out to the back woods. Those days are gone for good now. Even the farms now days have become huge multi-hundred acre businesses. I almost think this is a potentially dangerous trap we have fallen into, with so few people knowing, and caring to know how to grow, and produce food.
2006-07-26 17:01:45 · answer #4 · answered by oceansoflight777 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The world needs food so farmers are some of the most Noble humans. I think anyone who wants to pitch in should farm. I really don't like the idea that there are people in it for money, and on the other side I don't like the idea that a farmer has to sell all his food to survive. What?
Farmers should have too.
2006-07-26 16:47:56 · answer #5 · answered by abehagenston 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely :) But there are people that belong in and enjoy the city - and that's where they should be... And a country girl like me loves it in Arkansas - I'm a big believer in preserving what farming we have left.
2006-07-26 16:46:59 · answer #6 · answered by Diana 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I totally agree with you....There would be a lot less trouble if there were more farms (to work on) and see the beautiful outside. Instead of the cites where kids get into all kinds of trouble and you can't even breath with all the smog, and other nasty smell's!!
2006-07-26 16:49:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I agree Governments around the world should encourage people to leave the cities and return to the land. I feel uncomfortable knowing that a large part of my diet has traveled half way around the world to get to me. The cities are also full of people that dont belong there either.
2006-07-26 16:48:55 · answer #8 · answered by Odie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely 100% rite
2006-07-26 16:59:27 · answer #9 · answered by Jay V 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dont say that....you will ruin it for all of us already on farms!!! Dont let the secret out!
2006-07-26 16:49:32 · answer #10 · answered by erik c 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In retropsect, I would have rather been a poet, or a farmer.
-Sean Connery in The Rock
2006-07-26 16:48:46 · answer #11 · answered by CaptWags 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋