We cant feed ourselfs

[Tarrel]

I think the guy's comment in th article ("Supermarkets are driven by what consumers want, and they want cheap food.") is an over-simplification. We're having cheap food rammed down our throats as the big supermarkets reel from years of over-investment in store-space and scramble for market share. Having only a few massive retailers being able to dictate to the many small farmers is a distortion of the market, and represents a failure of free market economics (of which I'm normally a big fan).

Farmers would benefit from clubbing together into marketing groups more. Mey Selections, an initiative by Prine Charles in Northern Scotland is a case in point.