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Originally Posted by lurkette
If you really want to support small scale organic farming, check out your local food co-op (you often get 20% off your groceries if you work one 4 hour shift per week) or look into local "agricultural subscriptions." You pay $X/month and you get a certain amount of in-season produce every week. Pound of tomatoes, 6 peppers, whatever. Around here you can even sign up for fresh buffalo meat, chicken, eggs, goat cheese, whatever. Most if not all of it is organically produced and the meat is "free range" and free of pesticides and unnecessary antibiotics. The subscriptions really help the
farmers keep going, and it's good, fresh food.
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For some people the cost is an issue though. I mean, I buy free range aggs, cos I can afford too, even though Im not well off... but there are low income families that really can only afford the cheapest "value" products... and sadly they are most often the processed crap, the battery farmed produce, the mass produced GM crops....
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