By John Ikerd, BS, MS, PhD, Professor Emeritus, University of Missouri
(Published in Sustaining People through Agriculture column, Small Farm Today, July/August, 2001 issue.)
At a recent organic farming conference in Winnipeg, Canada, a woman in the audience stood up and said: “Organic foods are not going to become popular with mainstream consumers until they became quick, convenient, and cheap.” My immediate response was that true organic foods were not going to be quick, convenient, or cheap — at least not for some time to come. click to continue →
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