Our waiter gave friendly help, but his appearance goes to tell the level that wait staff have fallen to in our restaurants these days. If they show up and do the job, apparently appearance isn't that important! And if he's the son of the owner, or someone important, my comment still stands...hair is supposed to be in a net for food service!
Farm Animal Awareness week:
Meanwhile, there are independent farmers and ranchers raising animals on pasture with significantly better animal welfare and environmental outcomes, but these producers are drowning in a consolidated market flooded with cheap factory-farmed products that have been bankrolled by the government through subsidies and bailouts. As a result, the number of farms across the country is going down while the number of animals on the remaining operations continues to go up.
According to the USDA Agriculture Census, in 1950, there were 5.6 million farms raising 100 million farm animals—but in 2017, there were two million farms raising 9.32 billion farm animals. This rapid consolidation has dire consequences for animal welfare, responsible farmers and ranchers, rural economies, the environment, and public health.
(Just think about those numbers, less than half as many farms.)
Source: "Census of Agriculture." United States Department of Agriculture.
