My First Hate Mail
My First Hate Mail - I'm so proud
Boy, you really know you’ve arrived in the writing biz when you start drawing the whacko element out of the woodwork. I got my first hate mail! So exciting. This unstable fellow sent this note from the QC, according to the postmark, with no name or return address. How did he know I was French-Dutch? (Especially when I’m not?). It’s all in response to this OpEd I wrote in our local paper a couple weeks back.
Just for fun, I thought I might address the guy as if I took him seriously, so…
Dear Sir,
I am in receipt of your letter postmarked 19 April, and while I agree that cattle, hogs, sheep, goats, chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, sweet corn, watermelons, popcorn, corn and soy beans are all food, the sad fact is that most of those on your list are no longer grown in Iowa. Cattle and hogs are, but almost entirely in CAFOs (though some good farmers are going back to grass and pasture here and there). Corn and soy of course are, but that’s not food, that’s feed and fuel. The rest on your list aren’t grown in Iowa outside gardens and hobby farms.
As to the rest of your points, I am not “French-Dutch,” but rather was born in Chicago to American parent with Scots and Austrian ancestry, and raised in the Heartland, and have lived in Iowa for 23 years. Not sure what made you think this was not the case.
And I did not tell you how to farm, I stated what I believe would produce better food and a healthier community, as well as turn our farmers back into farmers (rather than sharecroppers, as Big Ag has forced them to become).
You failed to list any of your perceived “Misstatements in [my] opinion,” and so I am unable to address any of those.
I have not bought a farm because I do not have the money, and because the farming world today is the only business where you buy at retail, sell at wholesale and pay freight both ways. Just one of a thousand reasons why the current system is wholly unsustainable, and why I wrote the opinion I did.
And yes, I am so damn smart.
Kind Regards,
Mr. Friese
Hey Kurt don’t feel bad I too in the QC experience people wanting to take over on the organization I have been working diligently to organize. Everyone wants to feather their own caps.I find Non creative minds that can’t create for themselves but yet are so willing to take whatever they can to call it their own. How sad! Self serving self seeking people discuss me! You don’t listen to that moron and his hate mail. Keep up the good work! It is all positive and we need to learn to brush off those negative people in our lives!
Sincerely Karen Dohrn
Feed the masses with healthier food.