Challenge
Local Alaskan farmers injured by supermarket regulations
What can Carrs/Safeway and Fred Meyers do to make it possible for consumers to be able to buy locally produced agricultural products?
New requirements in insurance and packaging make it extremely difficult for local producers to market their products in supermarkets. The advantage goes to distant industrial farms. Are national supermarket chains willing to help local farmers sell their vegetables at a price that they can afford?
One of the goals of Alaska Humanity News is to explore everyday events and situations that escape attention because they are omnipresent. CHALLENGES is one of these features. Look through this edition to find other unusual features.
Send us news about perplexing contradictions, about unexamined assaults on everyday life, and we will take a look inside the news, and outside the box, and publicize it. See page 8 for a look at last month’s Challenge: the Hummer at the Airport.
Stayed tuned next month for the official response to the needs of Alaskan farmers and eaters.