This is the kind of thing Americans have always done when faced with unfair situations. It's just wonderful to read this is happening.

I've been buying direct from a local farm and it's the best meat I've ever had. (They do mail orders now, if anyone wants info let me know.) I also get country hams (also doing mail order) from a regional, small company that uses a grandfather's ham curing recipe and local butchers who source their meat from local farms. I pick up some things from the grocery only when I can't get to the butcher or the farm pickup.

I started doing this long before prices went crazy because I was tired of beef with no flavor, chicken with weird stripes in the meat that cooked up tough.

There is a company near here that did something like this for farmers to sell their fruits and vegetables to groceries. Two local chains have sections for local produce from them. But I hate the fact that the company itself is a bunch of liberal asshoes.