This commentary brings up some interesting questions about the price of food justice. Is the trend to organic, fair trade, and ethical food consumption a kind of wholesale greenwashing? Do these movements promote excess consumption and company profits?
http://demandnothing.org/consumer-ethics-makes-you-unethical/
“If I want to buy a happy chicken raised in an open field on corn, then I pay over £6 in comparison to the £3.70 or so that it costs for that chicken’s sad, factory-farmed cousin. To buy a chicken costs a full hour of work at minimum wage. With the cost of rent and bills rising as well as food, our society still deems it fit to tell them that this is not enough. You must pay more to be more moral.”
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Aug 2012
the price of food justice
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