Farmers market lies exposed: hidden camera investigation (Marketplace)
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Published 2017-09-29
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All Comments (21)
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As a small farmer: I despise the wholesalers who scam people at markets because they hurt small family farms like me.
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When I was a kid we went to Farmer's Market to get the fruits and veggies cheaper than the store. Now it's the complete opposite.
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Going to flea markets and farmers markets used to be the CHEAP option. Now it's for the upper class snobs and the poor go to the grocery store. Weird that stuff keeps flip flopping. Besides that I am really impressed by this journalist! Wish we still had investigative reporting like that in the US.
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My mom often asks when they planted the crops. Having grown up on a farm herself, she knows a fishy answer when she hears it.
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Imagine not taking the stickers off your “homegrown” produce. Did it grow the sticker??
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The plastic wrapped cucumbers, and stickers with upc codes should be a dead give away.
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This is gross! My heart goes out to the farmers who can't even get a table! I will be more vigilant when I visit the markets here from now on. Consumers needs to refuse repurchasing.
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You see a sticker , or plastic on a product and you still wonder if it's produced by a small local farm?
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I live in Peterborough and the farmer's market ended up splitting apart into three separate markets. The farmers who brought up concerns about the wholesalers were kicked out of the market. They started their own market where everyone is certified and there's an inspector who goes out their property to make sure they are growing everything. The other two markets don't do this and they still sell wholesale.
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This is true journalism. Y'all should be proud of yourselves.
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This is the type of journalism we truly appreciate. Thank you for sharing this.
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Large corporations have to disclose exactly where their food comes from. Farmers markets should be required to do the same thing.
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Wow, I almost forgot what investigative journalism looked like.
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I am soooooooo tired of being lied to everywhere I go.
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When they're pushing out the genuine small farmers for the wholesalers, that's not a farmer's market! That's an outdoor supermarket.
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Im a small farmer myself, and 90 percent of the time its very easy to tell if a product is chemical/pesticide free simply by looking at the table. If you cant find any item with insect damage then its very likely that it is not organic. I dont use pesticide or chemicals in my garden, its very common to see insect damage on my produce.
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So they can false advertise and say chemical free when in reality it involves pesticides? That should be illegal
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I like how they are so lazy that they can’t even take the stickers off sometimes
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You can: 1. Print a list of what's in season and when, 2. check for stickers or wrapping and avoid them, 3. Be familiar with the farms, 4. If you have a phone in your pocket, google their farm. Does it have tours etc.? They usually do., 5. Check your farmer's market regulations on participants
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That's really sad, my girlfriend does farmers markets in California and she has to prove that they are the fisherman in AK waters. She has to recertify annually and prove that to every market that they do. It's a lot of work for her. Thank you for showing this, because of what my girlfriend goes through I thought all farmers markets were that strict.
