Moving up from the kids' table

It is a great mental picture. Eating at the kids' table at Thanksgiving meant waiting for your parents and aunts and uncles to take their fill of turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, bread and cranberry sauce before the leftovers would trickle down to be passed around to the kids. Maybe the kids got the first shot at the relish tray - maybe.

Here is a link to a farm bill story from The Bellingham Herald that references the kids's table in a quote by Robert Guenther of United.
From the story:

“We used to be at the kids’ table,” said Robert Guenther, vice president of public policy for the Specialty Crop Farm Bill Alliance, a coalition of 75 fruit and vegetable organizations. “Now we’ve got a seat at the real table. It is still a tall task.”
Fruit and vegetable growers point out that their crops are worth as much if not more than subsidized crops, and yet they have basically been ignored when it comes to the farm bill.


TK: It's time that specialty crop growers get the food passed when the white meat is ample and the gravy hot.