tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984748109187469141.post5480254525220917183..comments2024-01-17T00:18:05.439-08:00Comments on Tenderbreak Permaculture Farm: COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE (CSA) SCHEMESAndrew and Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08029553518516048788noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5984748109187469141.post-89908466056019113062009-08-27T19:10:36.778-07:002009-08-27T19:10:36.778-07:00You wrote:
“On top of this, the big buyers (superm...You wrote:<br />“On top of this, the big buyers (supermarkets and processors) play farmers off against each other to gain the cheapest price possible. Whilst this may lead to cheaper prices (but not always) at the checkout, it has many serious negative effects.”<br /><br />The same kind of thing has happened in so many other industries. Manufacturing is moved overseas because production costs (pay rates) are so much lower and therefore the finished product can be sold to us for so much cheaper.<br /><br />There is a significant hypocrisy in this because we help support industries based on far lower rates of pay than those we would be willing to receive ourselves. We are happy for workers overseas to live in poverty; working obscene hours for minimal gain, as long as we can buy a lot more with the significantly higher wages that we insist are our right.<br /><br />Farmers are in a very similar situation to those overseas workers. They are far enough removed from the everyday experience of most Australians that they are given very little thought. <br />As long as we get our food as cheaply as possible it’s easy to ignore them.Onesimushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11413061573637313957noreply@blogger.com