Re: Walking gently - what does it take? | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Brian Bartholomew (bbstat.ufl.edu) | |
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 01:39:54 -0700 (PDT) |
Racheli Gai <racheli [at] sonoracohousing.com> writes: > Is buying the cheapest food (conventional, sold at WalMart) the > environmental thing to do? Or does one walk gently by contracting > with a farmer and paying her way more than what they would get in > the store, so that she can actually make a living? Now I'm thinking that "walking gently" doesn't mean what I thought it did. Let me retract that and address a smaller subject area by saying: "price in dollars is generally the best measure of resource use". If there existed a perfectly free market, with no subsidies and no uncompensated pollution, I would remove the "generally". However, today there exist absurd subsidy distortions, such as that animal feed corn is the cheapest solid fuel to burn in stoves for home heat. Brian
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