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- From: STEVE GILMAN <stevegilman AT verizon.net>
- To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Local Food fact Sheets
- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:51:16 -0500
Actually, the local food concepts presented at:www.environmentalcommons.org/ While I've seen an enhanced local business support consciousness in your nearby Austin, including the "Keep Austin Weird -- Support Local Businesses" campaign, many local economies and the growers that serve them remain in the dark how the oligopolistic players in the big food and every other major industry have colonized our localities to extract consumer dollars, taxes and resources (with the help of their special interest political powers.) Their size and economic clout enable them to buy low (the farmers' share of market basket sales is around 5%) and sell high (consumers are actually paying much more than the touted 12% of their "disposable income" on food), with the result that many local economies are on the ropes and farmers are down to less than 1% of the population. To the contrary, local food producers have one of the highest multiplier effects in the economy, helping to raise all (local) boats and increase local food security and independence. As citizens and farmers we all have many good reasons to promote local food production. Whether the Food Democracy viewpoint is objectionable is up to you, but I don't think its reality can be denied... best, Steve Gilman Ruckytucks Farm On Feb 16, 2007, at 12:00 PM, market-farming-request AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
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[Market-farming] Local Food Fact Sheets,
Pat Meadows, 02/15/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] Local Food Fact Sheets, Willie McKemie, 02/15/2007
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- Re: [Market-farming] Local Food fact Sheets, STEVE GILMAN, 02/16/2007
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