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Posted: Thu Nov 26, 09 7:22 pm Post subject: Re: Farmers Markets: do you have an opinion you'd like to sh |
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Mary-Jane wrote: |
The title of her research is: "Are Farmers' Markets raising the profile of organic foods or simply pandering to a minority?"
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As a consumer, my personal opinion is that farmers markets are working against the profile of organic food in that they provide a sensible, ethical and informed choice to consumers that can result in them choosing an alternative to organic. Whereas previously they would have seen it as the panacea of ethical shopping.
I would go further and say that from the markets I regularly visit, locally sourced food now takes a higher profile than organic. Most of the key buzzwords I see revolve around 'small, local, family, traditional' etc. It's almost as if the core of farmers markets are slowly evolving 'backwards' towards the original market concept.
Also I have seen a growth in the less traditional stalls cropping up - coffee, paintings, candles, and a huge amount of hot food stalls - curries, mexican, bloody crepes , which I assume cater for the farmers market experience rather than the actual shopping for meat, cheese, bread and vegetables bit |
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