The Road to Organic Island 4: Buying Directly from Farmers, a Truly Organic Consumer Movement
Amid the various miraculous biochemical methods since the "Green Revolution" (pesticides, chemical fertilizers, genetic modification, biotech), people can hardly tell genuine from fake in transactions that judge by "looking at prettiness and buying by weight." What is most helpless is that food suppliers, whether of their own accord or under pressure, are drawn in by the all-pervasive lure of black-hearted profit, which, like gravity, pulls people downward into "corruption" every moment, impossible to guard against. By joining a "Food Community" and using the power of the community to support farmers in carrying out friendly farming with peace of mind through CSA - Community Supported Agriculture, and then through open-farm work-exchange stays, work-exchange travel, food travel and other community-participatory farming and community certification to realize Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS), food miles can likewise be reduced and the predicament of food justice can be overturned.
Whether it is "contract farming by proxy" or a "Food Community," in fact both are simply good ways to gather everyone's strength through the internet and jointly build a friendly farming food system.