Thanks for wanting to add energy to people who desire to be stewards
towards the land by attempting to change perception.
I however, am not ashamed to call myself a farmer, nor refer to others as
farmers. Nor do I see any reason to stretch the post-modern deconstruction
of language to a word that, as all words do, inadequately describes the
human experience.
It is rather an awkward state of the modern political
climate that seeks to regulate the ways in which people refer to each
other through regulating their language. I know a great many people who
make money and are considered some
longtime stewards of the land. Why not spend time embracing the existing
word in the context you feel comfortable with?
Rooted,
Bob Moore
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