Should farmers be allowed to sell directly to customers if they want?
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Regulate farms? (Result)
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Freeborn61 |
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Posts: 8631 Jul 22, 2008 4:54 AM Admin
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I would trust buying food FRESH directly from a farmer than I would the food that has been processed, imported, and regulated at a store anyday. Plus, this is
suppose to be a free country.
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 Posts: 566 Jul 22, 2008 5:39 AM Glows in the Dark!
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Farmers should be able to sell to whomever that want. Many small farms do.
Mai di meno, si muove!
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Posts: 126 Jul 22, 2008 5:46 AM
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I always buy from farmers when I can. Usually I always had my own garden. I did not sell from it but gave away.
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Posts: 149 Jul 22, 2008 7:10 AM
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Farmers should be able to sell to whomever that want. Many small farms do.I agree. I often buy from farm stands and the farmer's market. |
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Posts: 541 Jul 22, 2008 8:08 AM Will one of my football teams
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I can kind of see their point. If the farms aren't regulated and they just sell it as they grow it. Do you actually know you aren't eating something
that shouldn't be up for sale?
I kind of look at this way. You aren't going to get your medications from some guy who has a pharmacuetical lab in his house? Are you? |
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2damnold4this |
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Posts: 625 Jul 23, 2008 7:23 AM I want a Beer!
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Of course they should be able to sell directly to customers.
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Posts: 9 Jul 23, 2008 9:28 AM |
We buy grass-fed beef, free-range poultry, eggs, and pork from a local farmer. It is healthier, and a lot cheaper than the supermarket. We also make use of the
local farmer's markets.
One warning though. I was in a "farmer's market" in Ontario last year where food is required to be labeled for country of origination. Everything except for one type of cherries was imported from South Africa, Costa Rica, New Zealand, etc. Quite an import operation for a business in a tent along the road at the edge of a small town! |
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warthogchattin |
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Posts: 662 Jul 23, 2008 4:27 PM
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farm shop sales and farmer's markets are quite big in england.
when i was a kid, you bought eggs, fruit and veggies from farms but these days they process their own meat and you get some quite big farm shops. some sell all kinds of things like a general store.
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Posts: 241 Jul 24, 2008 4:11 AM
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There's a Farmer's Market here once a month that I go to. The stuff is expensive but the quality is fantastic.
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