Reply #23: Simple solution: buy local from local fishmongers who get whole fish and can filet them

[bertman]

for you if you desire. Same with chickens. Buy local at your farmers' market. Or buy from a food coop or Whole Foods who offer anti-biotic, hormone-free meat.

It will cost you more to buy local but at least you know your money is going to benefit local families and not some too-big-to-fail mega corporation that could give a shit about American workers.

It is astonishing to me to hear the people I know who are lower working class or upper poverty class who think they are getting a bargain by buying cheap crap at WalMart. Even when I explain to them how they are subsidizing shitty pay and non-existent benefits in addition to no health care, they still grin and say something stupid like "Yeah, but I can git it a lot cheaper there."

Dumbed down to be the perfect consumer. Sometimes it seems hopeless.

Edited to say thanks for the excellent post.