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"Today, consumers don't realize we pay for our food not just once, but many times. We pay at the store, yes. But we pay again in taxes going to subsidies for the biggest producers, who don't need them. We pay a third time in the costs of pollution we endure from large farms destroying our soil, water, and air. Then we pay again in social services for those squeezed out by factory farms. And we pay again in the costs of urban crowding and sprawl. [...] The future of sustainable agriculture is in the hands of the consumer -- as consumers, we must literally start seeing price differently."

     --Jean-Yves Griot, quoted in Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lapp and Anna Lapp

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[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

It's a good read, although I've mostly been skimming it since it was, after all, purchased for the library and should get back out there on the shelf. Plenty of good stuff about rethinking wealth/scarcity, organic production, grassroots activity, etc.