"I've always seen local/organic movement as sort of the purview of the rich, a way to seem fashionable combined with a knee-jerk aversion to globalization."
Good journaling. The rich, as always, steal good ideas from poor, take grass-roots movements and make them "trendy." Jazz is another example. The trouble is, grass-roots movements need the rich, or at least fairly well-off, to become viable. It is sad that our world is this way, but most of middle-class America doesn't care about anything until pop news cares about it which is only after celebrities care about it. So while many modern hippies (like me!) thumb our noses at the rich man, we need him, otherwise change will not happen fast enough. Poor sad world.
Good for you with your considerate consumption of meats. I do the same. You are also supporting small businesses! Look into doing the same for shellfish when you can. Commercial fishing makes the oceans sad.
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Good journaling. The rich, as always, steal good ideas from poor, take grass-roots movements and make them "trendy." Jazz is another example. The trouble is, grass-roots movements need the rich, or at least fairly well-off, to become viable. It is sad that our world is this way, but most of middle-class America doesn't care about anything until pop news cares about it which is only after celebrities care about it. So while many modern hippies (like me!) thumb our noses at the rich man, we need him, otherwise change will not happen fast enough. Poor sad world.
Good for you with your considerate consumption of meats. I do the same. You are also supporting small businesses! Look into doing the same for shellfish when you can. Commercial fishing makes the oceans sad.
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