I recently asked someone in the agriculture field why they thought people would rather go the grocery store (aka supermarket) rather than purchase from a local farmers' market, farm, grow their own, etc. The answer I received was one I hadn't thought of: It began as a matter of status after the depression, you were a better person if you were seen in a grocery store rather than in a field, a farm or someone's garden. After the depression folks somehow through television, radio, magazines, thought it to be more "in style", almost like it bettered themselves if they were to go and shop rather than grow, sew, bake, build. The trouble with that is most of us would not know how to survive if we had a depression today. How many local farms, farmers' markets, do you know of should this happen today? Who of us can sew our own clothes, bake or cook our own foods? Grow our own food? How about make our own medicine? Things to think about. If/when that happened now, who would be an overnight master of these things?
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