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Following up on last week's discussion of the virtues and limitations of local food, I want to talk about supply, demand, policy, and the role of social democracy.
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1. 'Supporting' local food more or less comes in 3 forms:
A. Deliberate and organized consumer preference
B. Public sector support: Subsidy and regulation
C. Not-for-Profit institutional support
A. Deliberate and organized consumer preference
B. Public sector support: Subsidy and regulation
C. Not-for-Profit institutional support
2. A. only works over the long term if local products are superior in value to 'imports'. In that case, it's less about local demand than happening to live somewhere with great local supply, which is probably being 'exported' as well at which point, it's no longer local.
