When you buy cheap food, the real costs have been externalized. Those externalized costs have always included labor. It is only the decline over time of the minimum wage in real dollars thats made the fast food industry possible, along with feedlot agriculture, pharmaceuticals on the farm, pesticides and regulatory forbearance. All these things are part of the answer to the question: Why is that crap so cheap? Our food is dishonestly priced. One of the ways in which its dishonestly priced is the fact that people are not paid a living wage to process it, to serve it, to grow it, to slaughter it. -- Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivores Dilemma
Posted on: Sun, 04 May 2014 15:44:02 +0000
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