God Made Farmers

The two YouTube videos you had us watch for our blog assignment this week were of farmers, one commercial respecting what farmers do and one completely criticizing it.  They took two completely different sides in their point of views toward farmers.  The first video is called “God Made a Farmer” is a commercial advertising the new Dodge Ram truck.  This video is a tribute to farmers, as the narrator talks about how farming is the hardest profession and says how God made a certain type of people to be farmers.  The second video, “God Made a Factory Farmer”, is a sarcastic parody of the first video. The video undermines the actual commercial by bashing farming and telling about government aid of farms and how farming has been turned in a big business for money-making rather than a blue collar profession of manual labor.

In the Dodge commercial, they are very respectful toward all the hard work and effort that goes into the life of a farmer.  The video is narrated by Paul Harvey, where he is listing off all of these difficult and undesirable tasks that must be done, and after each he says that is why God made a farmer. He illustrates farmers as very hard-working and unwavering people.  The primary point of the commercial is to show and sell the fact that the Dodge Ram truck can handle anything, and is always dependable to even the lifestyle of one of the hardest working people in the world. It compares the truck to the hard-working nature of the farmers, and sells the idea by showing people how much farmers put into their work and how we should be a little more appreciative of what goes in to making and producing our food. 

The second video is the complete opposite of the first video.  It mocks the first video and points out the flaws in farming and fails to show any of the good that the original shows.  This video starts with the narration from an annoying nasally voice. The voice goes on to talk about how farms have turned into big business and how they play a mischievous role in politics by giving money to politicians. Toward the end of the commercial, they even blame the obesity epidemic in America on the techniques and ways of farmers. The two commercials start generally the same but then this one devolves into calling out every agricultural issue of the past twenty years and pins that on the farmers.