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The market only provisions grocery stores after massive subsidization, centralization, and exploitative labor. Can you usually purchase cheap local produce for

The market only provisions grocery stores after massive subsidization, centralization, and exploitative labor. Can you usually purchase cheap local produce for less than that offered by a conglomerate? I'm certain there are useful parallels between healthcare and the grocery market, but I feel like you left them out of your comment. Take bananas for instance: ubiquitous, constantly in demand, sold mostly by two companies, and widely produced by slave labor. Disclaimer: I'm in favor of a preventative care system available to everyone, regardless of income.

dahfizz 7y ago
> Can you usually purchase cheap local produce for less than that offered by a conglomerate? You can never purchase local, small batch ____ than you can from large companies. That's why companies get large - they are more efficient the larger they get (to oversimplify). Your local farmer has much less land than factory farm, and he doesn't have the state of the art equipment to harvest or store his crops. He can't justify spending so much money on equipment when he runs such a small farm. There's also a good chance he uses "organic" as a selling feature, which means his yeild per area land is way lower than an efficient farm. He also has to work much harder to actually sell his crop. He doesn't have large commercial deals that put his product directly onto shelves at Aldi. He has to spend half his time driving all over the place to various farmers markets to try and get people to buy his stuff. You might think all of this is pedantic or obvious, but I think efficiency of food production is very important. Food production is a massive contributor to climate change and opting for methods than can save on land area and water usage can have big impacts.
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The market only provisions grocery stores after massive subsidization, centralization, and exploitative labor. Can you usually purchase cheap local produce for

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dahfizz 7y ago
> Can you usually purchase cheap local produce for less than that offered by a conglomerate? You can never purchase local, small batch ____ than you can from large companies. That's why companies get large - they are more efficient the larger they get (to oversimplify). Your local farmer has much less land than factory farm, and he doesn't have the state of the art equipment to harvest or store his crops. He can't justify spending so much money on equipment when he runs such a small farm. There's also a good chance he uses "organic" as a selling feature, which means his yeild per area land is way lower than an efficient farm. He also has to work much harder to actually sell his crop. He doesn't have large commercial deals that put his product directly onto shelves at Aldi. He has to spend half his time driving all over the place to various farmers markets to try and get people to buy his stuff. You might think all of this is pedantic or obvious, but I think efficiency of food production is very important. Food production is a massive contributor to climate change and opting for methods than can save on land area and water usage can have big impacts.
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