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As a whole, food quality is the us is not great. Specially fresh produce. The lack of affordable farmer market is my take on it. And I don’t mean fancy farmer m
by dopidopHN 5y ago
As a whole, food quality is the us is not great.
Specially fresh produce. The lack of affordable farmer market is my take on it.
And I don’t mean fancy farmer market for bourgeois bohème type.
Where I grew up poor folks go to the market because it’s cheaper than a supermarket.
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y ago> Where I grew up poor folks go to the market because it’s cheaper than a supermarket. It is very difficult, in fact almost impossible, for individual farmers to beat supermarket prices any more, largely thanks to vertical integration within agriculture and food processing. This means that by and large, the point of farmers markets now has to be mostly about what you declaim: "bourgeois bohème type". If you don't have much money to spend on food, you won't be buying it directly from farmers anymore. That's sad, and seems weirdly wrong, but that's one of the paradoxes of scale in an industrialized, fossil-fuel enhanced agricultural system.