That's what it costs to produce organic food in a way that takes care of the land. Those are the real costs of food.
We have a system where we privatize profit and socialize cost. We pick up the tab on cheap food. There's no way in the world that a burger, shake, and fries costs $4.99. We are just swimming in cheap processed food that I hope you heard me say is costing us billions of dollars in our health care system. We need to figure out a way to democratize better food. We need to reallocate our subsidies to support a more sustainable ag system and then create social infrastructure—whether that's provincially around increased minimum wages, or increased social assistance rates, or basic incomes—that allows people to actually access the best food that's out there.
I'd probably take local over sustainable, and there are lots of ways you can skin this, but the cost of the food you see, say, at a farmer's market, is the cost of growing food in a way that takes care of the land. We need to pay more for our food. We have to pay more for our food. The question is, how are we going to democratize that food and bring more and more people to being able to afford the best kind of food that's out there?
You're looking at me as though that's weird—