From Patriot Post who picked it up from James Taranto, at the Wall Street Journal, who was quoting the New York Times....who was the source of the original stupidity...naturally.
"From the New York Times: 'The local food movement has been all about buying seasonal food from nearby farmers. Now, thanks to the Web, it is expanding to include far-away farmers too. A new start-up, Foodzie, is an online farmers market where small, artisan food producers and growers can sell their products. Foodies in Florida, say, can order raw, handcrafted pepperjack cheese from Traver, Calif., or organic, fair-trade coffee truffles from Boulder, Colo.'
What a great idea! And why not take it one step further? Farmers could band together and form large organizations -- call them 'corporations' -- to grow and distribute mass quantities of food. Retail operations could be set up in every town; they would be sort of super farmers markets, or 'supermarkets' for short. Soon everyone everywhere would be able to buy local food from all over the world!" --The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto
But, James, then they'd be evil...
The Gunslinger
Ohhh.... My husband quoted part of the WSJ one to me, I should have known it originally came from the NYT. Leave it to them to miss the point. (Which is, of course, that we don't WANT to buy from the big corporations.)
ReplyDeleteI want to buy from big corporations, as long as the products are good.
ReplyDeleteI like corporations. As long as they're providing a quality item at a fair price.
What's not to like?
In the case of large corporate farms, they're trying to squeeze out the smaller, family-owned ones, and they usually get large gov't subsidies to help out with that, for no apparent purpose. Mind you, even though the article made such a big deal about farmers and farmers' markets in particular, and mentioned growers, I found absolutely no produce on the foodzie site. Peculiar, I thought.
ReplyDeleteI don't have a problem with corporations in general, if their practices are fair, and their products are good (and reasonable.)
I am against ANY subsidies. Amen, sister.
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