here is an expanding consumer movement underway. A broad movement across many spectrum of food and product related concerns. Its expanding globally. A movement creating actionable change. Such as Burger Kings announcement of cage-free chickens and pork. Preceded by an industry reversal on Pink Slime. LoL, how iconic that. Pink Slime. These things happened because people demonstrated there was a market for it. The market for cage-free chickens expands, so now there are more oppurtunities for small farmers to enter the meat bird market. So long as the government doesn't get in the way, on behalf of the big box industrials.
For some time now, Farmers Markets and cooperatives have been growing in number (in the US anyhow). Meaning more people going to them. So more local food needing to be grown, employing more local people. With more money getting cycled through the community. Meaning more local taxes are generated, so more money for teachers and paramedics, roads et all. Additionally, People get healthier food, while spending less on food and medical expense. And more. It's all win.
Some local products become exportable, benefiting multiple economies. The money moves through communities from the ground up. Versus "trickling down" from upon high. Which by the time it reaches the earth, comes as only a light mist if at all. And it's just piss, scraps. Not enough to adequately sustain our communities. And it's our own damn fault! We pay them to do this to us. We buy their product, which funds their pwnage. We export our precious local markets to far off mega-corporations who funnel most of the money into the corrupted distortion, known as corporate government. Fascism if you will.
To those who dismiss this type talk to tin foil hat crap, look to history, even recent. For the US, perhaps start with General Smedley Butler's book "War Is A Racket"...
"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. ... I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. ... Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents."
That was written in 1935.
There is an astounding amount of public money chewed up in the corrupted system. At a time when nations are unable to pay for basic social services such as education, fire and ambulance service, roads etc. The money exists within public taxes. But it's purpose has been corrupted to serve private interest. Corporate welfare and subsidies and now trillion dollar bailout. So stop using that corrupted system already!! It's broken. Hurtful. Shameful. Been hijacked by rapists and thieves. So Stop Funding It With Your Patronage Please!! Start investing in community. Buy local lettuce +. Bank your money in local institutions that invest in community. Start a local business. Buy supply from local vendors and producers. ++ The majority of the economy is based on the money spent by the working class. That is significant power. The power of the free market. A great power literally at our fingertips. With an action as simple as voting with your billfold.