The Marketing of Farming

I often see pictures of farmers next to the product they supposedly produced. I guess it's meant to make you feel better seeing the person you're helping support, or something? Or you can see that some corporate robot or minorities weren't in charge of feeding the cow that you will soon consume?

Anyway, they must have done some market research that says the "I just saw the family dog get run over by a semi this morning" face moves the most product, because they usually look like this.