"you're not just buying the fruit...

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_noob_
_noob_ Posts: 3,306 Member
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...you're buying the farmer who cared for it and nurtured it" (on a radio add)

Does this kind of sentimental crap (for ads) bug anyone else? I seriously just laugh at this stuff.

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  • JustAboutDelicious_wechanged
    JustAboutDelicious_wechanged Posts: 2,487 Member
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    Just like when you tuck a buck, you are buying her child's education or her college educcation. Doesn't that make you want to buy more melons either way?
  • whierd
    whierd Posts: 14,025 Member
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    I find it amusing as well. As if I really care about the farmer, who I dont even know.
  • danamariers
    danamariers Posts: 155 Member
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    I care for that farmer about as much as they truly care about me... so not really (unless it's the farmer's market and it's my sister's produce at her stand. Then I care)
  • silver_arrow3
    silver_arrow3 Posts: 1,373 Member
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    If I were to then hook up with said farmer... does that mean that I paid for it?
  • BeachIron
    BeachIron Posts: 6,490 Member
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    Buying the farmer? I'm pretty sure that's illegal.
  • iAMsmiling
    iAMsmiling Posts: 2,394 Member
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    So, when I buy a banana, I'm actually buying an Ecuadorian farmer for 59 cents a pound?

    What the heck am I going to do with an Ecuadorian farmer?
    Who's going to grow the bananas if that guy moves to Arizona?
  • Yardtigress
    Yardtigress Posts: 367 Member
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    That's how they suck you in. "It's for the children". And people will give their money, vote for crazy things with that motto, and if you are not for it, your a fascist, racist, sexist, and all around bad person. So now they are expanding. Lol
  • AllTehBeers
    AllTehBeers Posts: 5,030 Member
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    Oh is this like "I'm paying your salary" **** people say to people in customer service?
  • wolverine66
    wolverine66 Posts: 3,779 Member
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    and when you have sex with a fruit, you are having sex with everyone the fruit's farmer had sex with...



    or something like that
  • mank32
    mank32 Posts: 1,323 Member
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    i support fair wages, local business, sustainability in general and sustainable agriculture (non-livestock espesh) so YEAH this crap DOES work on me. plus i fking LOVE FRUIT. you had me at 'buying the fruit', honestly...
  • The_Enginerd
    The_Enginerd Posts: 3,982 Member
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    I already thank him every time I eat. What more can he ask for?

    thanks-jesus-for-this-food.jpg
  • ldrosophila
    ldrosophila Posts: 7,512 Member
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    Every time you pay sales tax your supporting the governor to live in his mansion. awe dont you feel better now?
  • BrainyBurro
    BrainyBurro Posts: 6,129 Member
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    i support fair wages, local business, sustainability in general and sustainable agriculture (non-livestock espesh) so YEAH this crap DOES work on me. plus i fking LOVE FRUIT. you had me at 'buying the fruit', honestly...

    Toyota called... your Prius is ready to be picked up.
  • tehboxingkitteh
    tehboxingkitteh Posts: 1,574 Member
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    Does the same concept apply when we buy their milk? Basically we're paying them to feel up a cow teet... I guess bestiality is a bought and paid for profession now?

    Hmmm, I'm craving sausage...
  • diodelcibo
    diodelcibo Posts: 2,564 Member
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    Emotional blackmail, nice.
  • pnut456
    pnut456 Posts: 67 Member
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    i support fair wages, local business, sustainability in general and sustainable agriculture (non-livestock espesh) so YEAH this crap DOES work on me. plus i fking LOVE FRUIT. you had me at 'buying the fruit', honestly...

    Toyota called... your Prius is ready to be picked up.

    :laugh: :laugh:
  • _noob_
    _noob_ Posts: 3,306 Member
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    i support fair wages, local business, sustainability in general and sustainable agriculture (non-livestock espesh) so YEAH this crap DOES work on me. plus i fking LOVE FRUIT. you had me at 'buying the fruit', honestly...

    I support sustainable agriculture as well. This does not in and of itself make science an enemy in my eyes.

    I also grew up in a farming community (soybeans, cotton, corn, and milo mainly) where i saw a bunch of individual, independently owned farms and farmers that most would here would call the "enemy".

    When most here talk of "big agriculture" or big "corporations" and farming in a disdaining tone, I think of the the faces of the fathers of kids I grew up with and went to school with.
  • whierd
    whierd Posts: 14,025 Member
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    I say we charge all the wheat farmers with attempted murder.
  • SteelySunshine
    SteelySunshine Posts: 1,092 Member
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    ...you're buying the farmer who cared for it and nurtured it" (on a radio add)

    Does this kind of sentimental crap (for ads) bug anyone else? I seriously just laugh at this stuff.

    Well, that is creepy. It sounds a whole lot like human trafficking. And all I wanted was a banana.
  • brower47
    brower47 Posts: 16,356 Member
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    You're not just buying the fruit but the farmer who cared for it and everyone that farmer ever slept with.

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