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Originally Posted by johnty greentoes  Seems to me that our basic problem is that we all want cheap food. Like cheap = good. What we really need is affordable good quality food. Unfortunately the good quality bit rules out the afforable bit for many fellow citizens.
I live in the middle of a city, miles from a farmer's market (and I'll be blowed if I'm going to drive 40 miles in search of venison sausages! All that CO2) so my options for food are the usual supermarkets, and while I accept all the current furore around TESCO taking over the world, they do seem to have a pretty good organic meat selection. So I have to bite the bullet and pay twice the price - it really is the only option for the majority of pople. And why shouldn't it be - food is way too cheap and way too poor quality.
Isn't the old addage true - you get what you pay for.
In the meantime I'll encourage as many people as possible to dig their way out of this coundrum. |
Sorry JG, but I certainly do not want the cheap, tasteless meat that the supermarkets provide.
Today we drove a 60+ mile round trip to Bakewell Farmers' Market, and then on to the Chatsworth Farm Shop. What we bought was local produce.
Your quote "you get what you pay for" is just not true. You get what you are prepared to pay for would be more appropriate. Aka, "I'm not paying that for that" syndrome.
If you want cheap, tasteless meat, then by all means go to a supermarket. If you want meat that has been humanely reared, butchered and hung for an appropriate period, then you have to go to a decent butcher.
If you ar not prepared to drive 40 miles to buy the decent produce, well, just keep on eating the crap!!
valmarg