If we consume local products, if we consume fewer products and foods that have been produced cheaply resulting in the exploitation of workers and damage to the environment, then we are at least not contributing to violence.
We do not want to be living on the exploitation of others' labor. That creates a class whose interests oppose ours. When our standard of living depends on cheap food and other items produced overseas, we are aligning ourselves with the powers exploiting others -- corporations and governments who do little to protect their workers (like China). We are not only complicit with the exploitation of the workers, we perpetuate a class system -- i can only live well if i exploit a bunch of you -- that inevitably leads to violence.
It's really hard when you're poor too, which is why the urban farms in places like Detroit really have amazing potential to create change.
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