Keep Those Self-Righteous Fingers Off My Food: ; Ecosnobbery Is Hazardous to the Pockets
Charleston Daily Mail › September 09, 2009
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JUST in time for the worst economic downturn since the Depression, here comes a new crop of social critics to inform us that we're actually spending too little for the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the furniture we sit on and the gasoline that runs our automobiles.
Never mind that U.S. job losses these days range from 200,000 to 500,000 a month, that foreclosures are up 32 percent over this time last year, and that people are re-learning how to clip newspaper coupons so as to save at the supermarket.See the full content of this document
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Keep Those Self-Righteous Fingers Off My Food: ; Ecosnobbery Is Hazardous to the Pockets
Dire economic circumstances don't seem to faze these spending enthusiasts, who scold us for shopping at supermarkets instead of at farmers' markets, where a loaf of "artisanal" (and also "sustainable") rye bread sells for $8, ice cream for $6 a cup and organic tomatoes go for $4 a pound.
The latest cheerleader for higher prices is Ellen Ruppel Shell, a...See the full content of this document
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