Is local organic food a matter of wealthy versus poor?

Many people choose the cheaper food for economic reasons…. but there is nothing “cheap” about cheap food. Cheap is an illusion—there is no cheap food, or no cheap anything, for that matter.

There is only the real cost of production—what it would take to produce the product in a way that is healthful, environmentally sound, socially just and culturally appropriate.

If we buy it for less than the real cost of production, someone will pay the difference in price—either our health, or the environment or the child laborer somewhere halfway around the globe.

Someone or something will pay the difference for what we perceive as “cheap,” always.

…from Pacific Sun article June 10, 2010: “Going Green: Between heaven and Hellberg – The Marin Organic director holds the keys to natural-food nirvana”

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