6 may 2011

Informal dialogue - Farmers in your country

E: So, you have chosen this profession because your family?
T: Yes, since I was a child I went every afternoon with my father to help him in the field or just to control our sheep.
E: I heard that you went to school and high school, but it seems that you prefer to work here. I mean, we don't need to go to school to be a farmer, right?
T: Oh, that's not true enough. I went to school and highschool because I wanted to study biology at the university and work as a ecologist scientist. But I hadn't do that, I prefered to live as my father and to be calm and happy here.
E: That's true, if I have to imagine myself living a beautiful and fully live, I always see myself being a farmer with my girlfriend. Living with what earth gives you and being with my pets and sons. And to travel a lot and...
T: Jajaj. It's not so easy. I have to sell a good part of my vegetables and also some sheep for meat. It won't make me rich, but I can subsist well. Besides, I'll always have work and food to eat.
E: But what do you do to fight against those industries that makes the same as you but with chemicals and other things? I see at the market that their products are cheaper and more valuable.
T: Well, I think that a chicken that has grown with 2 or 3 years are healthier that one that's grown in a week or a mont, I don't remember the time. Natural products are healthier and with the savour of earth, without chemistry.
A few days ago I went to a naturalist restaurant with my family and...