Talk to the farmers at your local farmer’s market, they are struggling. If you are not an elite, consider how much more difficult is for small local farmers to grow their crops and provide good healthy food to more people in their local communities with the high costs involved that burden them as much as everyone else.

In my local community, small farmers are being pushed out of even the farmer’s market, because DIY enthusiasts are trying to strong arm market space to sell crochet and knit work, and also illegal aliens last year were found to have been stealing produce from the Walmart grocery store they worked in, and selling it as “organic produce” at the farmer’s market.

Quite honestlly, anyone who claims to care should be more than well aware that the push for bio-fuels have caused the food shortages and high prices for grains. The plain was poorly planned and implemented.. it’s also lead to the clear cutting of forests to grow palm and other types of high sugar crops. The environmental movement have been negligent in their advocacy of this, as they have been in their dealings with third world sweat shops, telling authoritarian governments and corporations that they don’t care about human rights violations as long as they switch to “green” technology.