As I'm sitting here eating my egg, bacon, and cheese biscuit a thought occurs to me; thinking about where our food comes from, isn't something that often crosses other people's minds. It's no secret that I come from an agricultural background—it has to this day defined who I am, and what my future will be.
"Where does my food come from?" A question consumers are asking more and more these days. There is no fault in asking this, in fact myself, and I can confidently speak on behalf of many producers, would love the chance to share with consumers where their food comes from. The problem lies in the fact that these conversations aren't happening. The bigger problem at hand, is that these conversations that aren't happening, are being replaced by false information. If all a person is ever given is false information, what circumstances do they have to believe that what they know then isn't the truth? That's a hard comeback for the Ag industry.
Now, how does all of this tie into my midnight cravings for egg, bacon, and cheese biscuits? I have the advantage of knowing the process by which the slice of bacon made it onto my sandwich, and that the eggs came from a chicken (and not the grocery store), and that the flour used to make my biscuit was once a wheat seed, out in a wheat field, blowing in the summer breeze (on the plains of Nebraska...of course!). While I am fortunate enough for this to be common knowledge for me, I realize that it isn't for everyone, so I want to help start those conversations about where our food comes from.!
For those of you wondering, Jimmy Dean makes a mean microwavable sandwich, no they didn't pay me to write this, and yes I could probably eat the whole box in one sitting.
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