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Re:The Omnivore's Delusion: Against the Agri-Intellectuals by jrockway on Monday August 03, 2009 @04:06AM (#738814)
it should cause us to ask whether food is too cheap, which is to say, whether all the external costs of food have been adequately priced in

This is spot on. Our economy does not price externalities well.

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Re:The Omnivore's Delusion: Against the Agri-Intellectuals by jimmybot on Monday August 03, 2009 @04:20AM (#738825)
I get what you mean, but if they were priced correctly, they'd just be internalities. Internalities?
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