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The costs of farming

One thing that the article failed to mention was how hard it is for small farmers to make a living anymore.  The cost of "conventional" produce is so low that it can hardly be made profitable. The price has been driven down artificially by the largest most automated corporate farmers, and this is driving whole communities of family farmers out of the farming life.  This has happened in many places just in the last generation or two.  

Who knows -- there might be a Wal-mart effect when the small farmers are finally all gone, as the new farm monopolies raise the prices they kept low to drive the little guys off of the land they had worked for generations.

Organics are not any more expensive than food ever was before -- working people are making less, and are then being sold a substandard, poisonous product that is by no means the same food our great-grandparents grew, and our grandparents were raised on.

Honestly, if organic produce gets any cheaper, I will become very nervous about the future of farming in this country.  Food being too expensive for working people to buy is an indication of the need for a stronger labor movement in the U.S., not a call for lower prices.On Seriously, now -- why aren't organics getting affordable? posted 4 years, 3 months ago 18 Responses