Thanks for the link.

Some concerns about the "Buy Local" campaign:

The Web site says,

"Local food supports local farm families. Fewer than one million Americans now claim farming as their primary occupation (less than 1%). Farming is a vanishing lifestyle. And no wonder: the farmer today gets less than 10 cents of the retail food dollar. Local farmers who sell directly to consumers cut out the many middlemen and get full retail price for their food - which means farm families can afford to stay on the farm, doing the work they love."

It Web site also lists New Leaf as a participant in the campaign.

I cannot afford to buy produce at New Leaf. Yesterday, a small container of blueberries was going for $5.19. That's nuts!

Setting aside my gripe about high prices, I still have no evidence that "Buy Local" farmers treat farmworkers differently than do other farmers.

My guess is that "Buy Local" is a bunch of rich white folks who continue to take advantage of latino farmworkers, but who are clever enough to spend money on a PR campaign so we don't think about that as we savor our $5.19 blueberries.

I wouldn't mind paying extra for food (within reason) if the money ended up in the pockets of farmworkers.

I don't much care about enriching farm owners. That's what agricultural subsidies, restrictive import policies, marketing boards, and federal school lunches are for.

[Hopefully my skepticism is unjustified!]