Seriously? People Believe Strawberry Milk Comes from Pink Cows?

So I have seen multiple stories lately regarding farming and gardening.  I believe the recent flurry of garden-related articles is due to Michelle Obama's promotion of an organic garden.  A few articles I've read speak about the first lady doing her own garden work to cultivate an interest in today's youth to learn more about farming.

Here is one article from the LA Times that I found interesting:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-daum29-2009oct29,0,2987190.column?track=rss

So, is it true that farming is becoming more popular in today's generation?  If you define popularity based on more attention, then yes.  With multiple issues that have arisen in the news, farming is without a doubt an important factor in life.  It always has been.  Without farmers to produce food and other resources that help in our existence, society would be at a loss.  Coming from a small, rural location dominated by farms, I've seen and heard stories of people working around the clock to make even small ends meet (such as waking up at the crack of dawn just to check the farm and begin the daily process of farm work). Moreover, since I grew up in this environment, I knew farming is important to life.

So why is it now gaining so much attention?  Well according to this LA Times article, social sites are a main source of gaining popularity.  After all, now facebook has FarmVille, where everybody can be a farmer. We can't forget Michelle Obama utilizing publicity to promote gardening. Is this enough for people to become interested in starting their own farms or working on a farm?  I doubt it. These online games such as FarmVille are merely that:  video games.  Some people may actually use it as a get-away from their life to raise cows in a virtual world.

I noticed that this article didn't really bring up any issues of people not showing interest in farms. It did speak about how today's culture may be convinced that strawberry milk is actually produced from pink cows (this brought great laughter to my morning when I read it...and at the same time, it startled me).  However, that small joke didn't really make it seem like much of an argument.  I would have liked to have seen this author ask people on the social networking sites or just somebody on the street if they play farming games and if they would ever do it for a living.  This would be an interesting aspect to the story. I also think this could have given the story a little more depth (although the awareness of farms and a slight look of what happens in farms is portrayed in the video games was a nice piece).  I was just looking for somebody's opinion on what it's like to raise a virtual cow.  I would also like to ask the people playing the games, "So where does strawberry milk come from?"