Dear romanian consumer of products from short supply chains,
I would like to address this letter to you. You who are the final recipient of products which were grown with love and caring thanks to our romanian producers and peasants, you have the final say. And may I say, based on my own experience with hundreds of your kind, your words are so harsh for producers! Let me explain this...
- You would like to have cheap products regardless of the work that the producer did. You don't care that the producer spent all his time and energy, you will still try to negociate for a cheaper price, which proves your lack of respect towards all the work invested so you can have food on the table.
- You would also like to have quality and quantity in the same time! You don't care about the fact that to reach a certain amount of quality, a huge amount of work was put in, and that quality and quantity are incompatible! Would you rather eat a lot of junk food or eat small portions of healthy food? The choice is yours!
- Moreover, bringing your order home seems very convenient to you...Why should you bother to come to pick up your order somewhere when the producer can come at your place right? You consider your time more precious than the producers', because you work or you have kids. This by the way is the strangest reason I've ever heard and I still cannot understand it! Why can't you take your kids with you to meet the producer so they can see where the food comes from, so they educate themselves?
- You don't seem very interested about the producer anyway. You don't want to visit the farm, you don't ask questions about the production, you're not interested to find out more about the products, you wouldn't mind to harvest yourself. Actually, this is just a proof of your lack of involvement and interest and/or time. Therefore, it may take another 50 years or more to make CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) or vegetable baskets trendy, so that you become "consumactors", meaning consumers and actors of your own food, basically of your own healthy life! I will always remember about this farm in The Netherlands where consumers came to pick up their vegetables, harvesting just what they needed for the week, and contributing to the production with their own hands...
- Besides, I see more and more of you who are acting disrespectful towards producers. You seem to consider yourself superior and worthy of receiving food while offending, insulting and not respecting the ones producing it, as if they were your slaves...
- Nevertheless, besides your air of superiority, I realize that you lack knowledge about food and agriculture, about the concept and principles of organic agriculture, and you have misunderstandings about the difference between conventional and organic agriculture. For example, you expect a traditional family farm to give you the same products as the supermarket. Well sorry to say this but you're wrong! Using traditional seeds and organic agriculture gives you a completely different result! The products are more fragile, they have different shapes and sizes, the taste and consistency are variable. You cannot really expect that Mother Nature gives you identical vegetables or fruits, it's nonsense, it's not a cloning machine!
This industrial conventional agriculture has fooled us for far too many years. It's time to come back to reality my friends. If you want real healthy food, stop lying to yourself and take a closer look around you. Just stop for a second and think about yourself. What do you want in your life? Lifeless identical food or vibrant products full of love and energy? The choices we make determine our life...
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