“Why is Alberta beef bought at the farmers’ market philosophically superior to–and way more expensive than–Alberta beef bought at bigger grocery stores, which employ way more Albertans? If I can buy Alberta chicken processed by an Alberta plant sold at the Superstore for far less than I can at a cutesy booth, why wouldn’t I? I don’t care if it’s hand plucked, and I don’t think the fowl does, either. A dead duck is a dead duck.”
Your choice matters.
Every choice adds up and so every choice matters.
Is a dead duck just a dead duck? Is a t-bone always a t-bone?
Let’s face it. Organic locally grown food is more expensive than imported non-organically grown food.
Cheap food is cheap for a reason. It has less value in it.
Remember the baby food that had been imported from China a few months ago. Baby food is baby food, right? Except for the melamine that add been added to keep costs down.
Let’s import all our veggies from Mexico. Lettuce is lettuce, right? Except for the e-coli that was found on the imported lettuce from Mexico where they use raw human sewage to fertilize the crops (not always but sometimes… because it so so much cheaper than using properly prepared compost).
Have you ever spoke to someone who toured agricultural production sites in China? I hesitate to call them farms. I know people who have sworn off eating ANYTHING that comes out of China because they have seen how it is grown.
Cheap food is cheap for a reason.
I care passionately about the food that I grow. I feed my kids the food that I grow. I put my name (literally) on everything that I grow. Does the extra work I do to make sure that the beef on your plate is the very best beef I can grow make it cost a little more?
Yes it does.
But it still is cheaper than melamine in your baby food, ecoli in your lettuce, and who know what in your Chinese produce. That stuff is expensive because it can cost you everything.
