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That’s nice, but if we all did that, the price would be 100 times
by idunnoman1222 2y ago
That’s nice, but if we all did that, the price would be 100 times
- anticorporate 2y agoThat's nice, but that's not how economics or farming work. There are a lot of factors limiting local farms' ability to deliver at a cheaper price point, like corporate consolidation, land being converted into suburban sprawl, a lack of local value add and processing infrastructure, huge subsidies (and water resources) being wasted on commodity growers, an aging farmer population, etc. Do you really think that if a head of cabbage was fetching $150 a pop at my grocery store that Earl who owns the farm across the street from me is going to stubbornly continue to grow commodity tobacco at a profit of $2000 an ACRE? (About 35 cents a plant.)
- idunnoman1222 2y agoRight the way economics works is I’m going to get my cabbage from a totally different part of the world depending on what time of year I buy it. And yes, when it’s in season, it’s nice to go to the local market. If cabbage was $150 a pop your neighbors biggest concerned would probably be the dead bodies in the streets