Have you ever had a supermarket tomato? They were picked green three months before, gassed to make them red, and bred for transportation. Why would pay any money for something that tastes awful? I wouldn’t.
Someone gave me a couple of home-grown tomatoes recently. I made them into sauce. Boy was that sauce good! So sweet!
I remember reading these usenet sites years ago where the liberals were discussing ways to take the wind out of America's sails. They agreed that our food is too inexpensive and that if we were made to spend more on food we'd have less left over to destroy the Earth (or whatever). I have a real problem with that notion. I don't want to go back to the days where food was so damned scarce that oranges were given away as Christmas gifts. I think it's great that a much smaller percentage of our population is needed to grow our food. Just my take.