[lbo-talk] another piece on agriculture

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Aug 7 11:53:34 PDT 2007


On Aug 7, 2007, at 1:54 PM, John Thornton wrote:


> So how much is a loaf of this bread?
> How many hours does a typical working class person have to work to
> buy a
> weeks worth of bread? Or is this bread for the upper crust?
> Isn't this more about niche marketing than anything else or am I being
> overly cynical?

I know this guy, since he's married to Liza's cousin. They're both very earnest people. They're not trying to service yuppies. They're sincere back to the land types. Initially they were going to raise pigs using the leftover slop from a local brewery, but that didn't work out.

Doug



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