[Cicero]

This comes from the Reason Foundation? The author sounds like a flat earther.

We already have too many people in America who don't know where anything comes from. They turn on the faucet and get water, plug in a lamp and get light, and have no appreciation of what lies behind these things.

As for food, fresh grown and local grown is certainly tastier and healthier than stuff that was picked when it wasn't ripe yet and shipped across the country.

If you've tasted fresh eggs or free-range chickens, you wouldn't want to eat the other stuff unless you have to. A lot of people have no choice, but even in the city you don't have to buy Tyson chickens or Velveeta. Ugh.

[fone]

>>>Tyson chickens<<<

To my knowledge, I've not purchased a Tyson product since 1993/94 when I found out he was a FOB.

[speekinout]

As for food, fresh grown and local grown is certainly tastier and healthier than stuff that was picked when it wasn't ripe yet and shipped across the country.

Where do you live? Most of us live in areas where locally grown foods aren't available all year round. I like vegetables that have been shipped halfway around the world more than ones that have been stored here for 6 months or more.

[dennisw]

Put me down for local food and organic if possible. I'm a techno-peasant at heart.

[RightWhale]

fresh grown and local grown is certainly tastier and healthier

Even Brussels sprouts and cauliflower are edible when fresh-picked.

[AnalogReigns]

This comes from the Reason Foundation? The author sounds like a flat earther.

Clearly you don't know much about the Reason Foundation, nor flat earthers for that matter!

The author's point is that the market economy WORKS! That we in America today have the BEST food, with the BEST selection, at the BEST prices (adjusted for inflation, of course) and with the BEST safety and health, in history. Everything this guy says is backed up by facts....the idea that organically grown is more nutritious, better for you, etc, is pure hype: IT SIMPLY DOES NOT HAVE THE SCIENCE TO BACK IT UP. Of course our market economy allows consumers to choose--and many consumers choose organic, hence its availability...and that's just fine. Lets not go about being sentimental about good ol' "life on the farm" however... (having lived on a farm, I know).

Mr. Bailey's main point is though that in historically incredibly prosperous societies as in Western republics, 98% of us DON'T have to scratch out a living on a farm, like the vast majority have throughout history, or folks in places like Haiti or Bangladesh still do... This is the wonder of our system--that people CAN be ignorant of farm life, and get along great, just because our capitalist economy works so incredibly well.

Read anything by the late economist Julian Simon to see the irrefutable proof.