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randr

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4. It is a long line of supply and demand

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Mon May 4, 2020, 08:49 AM

May 2020

From seed growers to groceries.
Pull out one factor and the whole chain collapses.
The answer is a reassessment of our food supply. Localize! More small businesses working directly with consumers. Less corporate control of processing that injects chemicals from the feed seed to the final product. Diversity of food supply guarantees more nutritious and not more marketable food stuffs.

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Why, Exactly, Are Pork Chops So "Essential" That Workers Must Die To Keep Plants Open? [View all] hatrack May 2020 OP

Farmers, ranchers voted for the Pig in large numbers Thomas Hurt May 2020 #1

It's the bacon! captain queeg May 2020 #2

Because its food. Eko May 2020 #3

I don't buy any pork. hunter May 2020 #9

So what? Eko May 2020 #12

Don't be so egocentric as to impose abusive work on others. hunter May 2020 #13

You're so funny. Eko May 2020 #14

It is a long line of supply and demand randr May 2020 #4

Several local meat producers in my rural area. The chain grocers are short, but the family run Midnight Writer May 2020 #10

Same here, lots of good organic non GMO randr May 2020 #11

Donnie wants his meat. lark May 2020 #5

Ask Vincent... LuvLoogie May 2020 #6

Road kill before pork... safeinOhio May 2020 #7

Donnie The Racist Heard It Is.... global1 May 2020 #8