Great article

http://www.wildfermentation.com/resources.php?page=economics


Some fascinating ideas and concepts becoming quite closer to my heart. As my life and my family change and shift to a different motive and practice for living, these things begin to ring more and more true, not just as principles, but as actual paradigms inherent in Creation. Somehow, these things appeal both to the sentimental (for sure), but also something a little deeper, like a simple "This makes sense" gut level.



"Some version of "caring about the health of the consumer" surely appears in the mission statements of all the major food corporations, including the most egregious violators of the public trust. In other words, it is hard to genuinely care about someone you don't even know. "

"You cannot pay someone to care. You can pay someone to act as if they care; you can pay them to follow meticulous guidelines; but you can't make them really care. "

"An alternative path exists: food should not be primarily a commodity. Food is a gift of God's Good Earth, for which all religious traditions teach gratitude. To subject it to the economic regime of the lowest bidder is to desecrate the gift and insult the Giver. "

"When people ask if they can buy our soda in the future, we usually say, "No, but we'll teach you how to make it." We envision a society where every household has a speciality, be it soda or sauerkraut, soap or stock, bread or soy sauce, that they make in quantities sufficient for five or ten households – precisely the quantity that maximizes efficiency without compromising quality. (It is not much more work to make ten gallons of soda than it is to make one, but to make fifty gallons is an enterprise of an entirely different order.) "