{"id":321,"date":"2017-07-13T18:22:29","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T18:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/?p=321"},"modified":"2017-07-13T18:23:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T18:23:35","slug":"eat-buy-and-farm-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/eat-buy-and-farm-local\/","title":{"rendered":"Eat, Buy, and Farm Local"},"content":{"rendered":"

Local and large-scale farmers in America are suffering to keep up with big industry prices as a result of large corporations keeping market produce prices extremely low. To aid farmers who do not have the ability to sell at these low prices, there needs to be a change in the way we look at the food we purchase. We as a society need to pay more attention to how our choices about our food affect the food system as a whole. In The Real Cost of Cheap Food<\/em> we learned that just helping farmers increase production does not aid in their survival and success because \u201cwithout access to markets, for example, yield increases benefit no one\u201d (Carolan 6). Farmer\u2019s Markets are a step in the right direction because they allow farmers access to customers that would otherwise be unaware of their existence. Large stores like Trader Joes and Whole Foods claim to sell local produce, but they are still purchasing from local corporate farmers instead of smaller, family-owned businesses.<\/p>\n

To allow farmers access to markets they can sell their produce in at a larger scale, we need to ensure that grocery stores and online grocery delivery systems like \u201cAmazon Fresh\u201d and \u201cHello Fresh\u201d are purchasing from the smaller farmers. It may be helpful to encourage local government to create a minimum order for all grocery stores to local farmers to promote the use and steady business with small-scale farmers instead of just large corporate farmers. Support of local smaller-scale farmers creates jobs, saves fossil fuels, and helps to keep the local economy stable and thriving. The local government may have difficulties implementing this program, so it is possible that it is up to the consumer to continue choosing the smaller farm options to encourage large grocery chains to buy from them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Local and large-scale farmers in America are suffering to keep up with big industry prices as a result of large corporations keeping market produce prices extremely low. To aid farmers who do not have the ability to sell at these low prices, there needs to be a change in the way we look at the food we purchase. We as… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,84],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-systems-thinking","tag-takeaway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}