On Food

I am willing to spend money on food. I am willing to pay a premium for quality products. I will pay more into the hands of a farmer then the corporate grocery giants. I care about where my food comes from, and will not buy an item if I think it traveled too far to be sold.
Author Jim Algie published a little opinion piece about how my feeling on food were becoming more and more mainstream.... I wish it was true but really I do not think so.
I definitely think I am an oddity. Few people question in the produce department about country of origin, and what it comes down to people do not care and the lowest price wins.
I try to do my best. I store ahead from the farmers market, I pay more for pine river cheese- made in Ripley Ontario. I tend to buy Gay- Lee products regardless of price. Meat from friends only. But even I get lazy. I run out of eggs and buy them from the store instead of a friend. I want bananas, and oranges which are certainly not local. I buy fresh spinach year round.

The point I really want to make is that even the farmers do not seem to make the connection. A family that I spent a large amount of time with as a teenagers and even went grocery shopping with alot would go to great lengths to save money. If it was cheap and produced in God knows where "Yippee it is cheap". So if the farmers who need to paid for what they produce are not willing to spend a little extra on local, who can we expect as a society to do so.