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Why buy at a Farmers’ Market? – A very short story.
Farmers’ Markets Australia Wide

Farmers’ Markets, are markets where farmers from a local area sell their produce directly to consumers.  They are a fast-growing phenomenon in Australia: in 1999 there were no such markets, but the number is growing fast.  In the USA there are already over 3500 Farmers’ Markets.

When farmers sell food to a supermarket or on export markets, they get as little as 10% of the final price.  But at a Farmers’ Market, farmers get 100% of the sale price.  You get fresh produce (often picked the day before), locally produced.  That means you get fresh local produce and you help save our local farmers from being forced off their land by a giant corporation.

Much Farmers’ Market produce is organic because in this situation they can afford to grow their produce clean and green, (unless it has been hit by patented Genetically Engineered pollen).  At Farmers’ Markets there should be fewer chemicals for us and we get to save our farmers by putting our money into their pockets instead of giving it to some giant foreign corporation.

The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is supposed to get rid of protection.  Well it does get rid of the protection for us the consumer, but it gives full protection to multinational corporations to do what they like; those telling us how good the FTA will be, never seem to talk about the ‘corporate protection’ side of the bargain.

Is it not strange that we get two standards from our economists and politicians?  Firstly we must tear down the barriers to promote free trade; meaning, get rid of protection.  Then after that idea has been sold to the public, protection is increased for foreign corporations.  They can then do what they like with the full protection of the law and by the help of their mercenary lawyers; and sadly some judges.

With the FTA between Australia and the US just watch our supermarket shelves loaded with genetically engineered food UNLABELLED from the USA.  Nobody wants this junk anywhere else in the world but it will be dumped on us.  Prove me wrong and i’ll apologise.  My suggestion is, don’t buy any food produce from the US if it is not labelled GM Free or GMO Free and, support Farmers’ Markets when you can.


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