Kirk McLoren wrote: > If you want cheaper food you have to break the stranglehold the > corporations have on distribution.
I'm sorry, but this level of rhetoric is just getting to be too much for me. Cheaper food? You want CHEAPER food? The base food in the US is already so cheap, that folks go out of businesses trying to produce it. Cheaper? The most sensible discussion I've ever heard on the cost of food revolved around keeping the price of food artificially low, so that only large scale industrial approaches could be considered viable, and low production high quality (read small farm) approaches were doomed to economic failure. This approach 'frees' up lots of 'consumer dollars' to go other more important things, like HDTVs and iPhones, new SUVs, granite counter topped trophy kitchens (that never get used) rather than nutrition and health. Please note that I am only speaking of the USA. My first hand knowledge outside there is really weak. I've not even set foot outside the USA in over 20 years. Stranglehold? You mean the stranglehold of desiring only the one criteria of cheap perhaps. That's the only stranglehold I see them having. To grow high quality food is time consuming, and labor intensive. You want it to be cheaper too? So, the folks who work their asses off 50 weeks out of the year, 7 days a week should earn less for their efforts at bringing nutritious high quality food to market? last time I was at a farmers market (and I go about every week) I didn't see any corporation there strangling people. But then again, the food wasn't cheap. It was fairly priced. Sorry, but that line really pushed my buttons. _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
