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Giant market controlling forces on either side of them, (seed, pesticide corporations from the supply side and giant buyers consortiums like walmart, costco and safeway on the demand side) gobble up all the profits to be made.
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The biggest controlling force being the Canadian Wheat Board. For example, a farmer has to sell his malting barley through the CWB. He can't sell it through anyone else. The CWB says that a farmer can only get $2.50/bushel of malting barley. That same bushel makes 33 bottles of beer. Easy to figure out who makes the money.
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Unfortunately, we are so completely ignorant about where our food comes from that we think it's our perogative to berate the people who produce it for us.
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This is so true. The Europeans value their farmers as a lot of people had to starve during WWII over there and they don't want to have it happen again. Unfortunately, North America has a cheap food policy and if the price went up a little bit, people sure complain.