GREEK SELF HELP.

        The brutality with which the corporate fascists have hit the Greek people is beginning to have a bit of a blow-back effect. For years the farmers have been screwed by the merchants who offer them a pittance for their crops and then the produce goes to the supermarket where the public get ripped off along with the farmers by paying through the nose for what the merchants bought for a song. Now the farmers are turning to the public direct, and selling tonnes of potatoes at a fraction of the supermarket price and still making more for themselves. Let's hope that the process spreads through the whole of the Greek home grown produce and the friends of the corporate fascists, the supermarkets pull down the shutters and pull out. The ingenuity and resilience of the ordinary people is a rich seam, we should always remember, we don't need them, they need us, a little bit of mutual aid goes a long way.

This from Teacher Dude's Grill and BBQ:

With incomes plummeting and retail prices rising the idea for farmers to sell their produce directly to the Greek public has proved to be an unexpected success. Producers from the northern region of Nevrokopi sold 35 tonnes to city dwellers eager to buy potatoes at less than a third of the supermarket prices. For the farmers it is a chance to sell potatoes at a reasonable price rather than be forced to accept merchants's offers than did not even cover the cost of production. In the wake of the successful experiment other producers of fruit, vegetables and dairy products are considering following the potato farmers lead. Clickhere for their site.

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