local food may feel good but it doesn't pay

[bcbm]

http://www.npr.org/2013/03/18/174665719/local-food-may-feel-good-but-it-doesnt-pay

[Philosophos]

Ofcourse they don't favor the farmer... Have you ever seen how much the traders buy and how much they sell? One example, I was working on gathering grapes and the owner was telling me of how much they have ruined his work over the last years.
The traders are buying the grapes for X money and they sell it for XXXX money. At the same time most of the product is thrown away because people can't afford to buy lots of it.
Oh my god deja vu : Das Kapital!!!

[Jimmie Higgins]

Wow, some NPR listeners probably just had their minds blown.

This sort of petty bourgeois market autonomism (I just coined that) is heavy in the San Francisco Bay Area. It's really like the liberal end of the same spectrum as the tea party IMO. Pull yourself and the environment up by your own ethical organic bootstraps.

Underlying it all is a misunderstanding of capitalism, as if bad choices are the problem. Agribusiness is because of "too much consumption" or greedy big farmers, not that maximizing profits means concentrating capital and finding methods for extracting the most value from the labor.

[Decommissioner]

Wow, some NPR listeners probably just had their minds blown.

This sort of petty bourgeois market autonomism (I just coined that) is heavy in the San Francisco Bay Area. It's really like the liberal end of the same spectrum as the tea party IMO. Pull yourself and the environment up by your own ethical organic bootstraps.

Underlying it all is a misunderstanding of capitalism, as if bad choices are the problem. Agribusiness is because of "too much consumption" or greedy big farmers, not that maximizing profits means concentrating capital and finding methods for extracting the most value from the labor.

I encountered some of this during the occupy march a year ago. Saw a lot of signs from liberals proclaiming to bring "our jobs" back home from china. Liberals see no connections between them and workers around the world. They just see foreigners that don't fit into their "buy local buy green" rose tinted reality.