local fair trade

Food and morals are even apparent when people are struggling to survive. As the percentage of income spent on survival reduces, morals food become more desirable. Hence the success of fair trade and local food. Fair trade has obvious morals that we the rich dont want to exploit the poor farmer. I see local food the same way, we farmers market supports are willing to pay the farmer a premium for a variety of different reasons. One being we dont agree with the power that giant retailers have over suppliers. These specifications often mean whether events causing minor superficial damage renders an entire crop worthless and of course causes a lot of waste. Vegetables and fruit must comform to certian sizes and shapes. Natural varity is bred out and we end up with perfect looking uniform produce of questionable quality. The same fair deal moral converted into premium by fair trade can be applied to local food. Small relatively powerless producers can sell at a premium because there food provides a better deal to the farmer. Local food has succeeded in making the small family farm more viable. The conflict between local and fair food arises because local food aims at reducing the distance food travels. International food supplies immediately are seen as products to avoid but the situation is complicated when you start to look at effiecieny, common sense and unwillingness to give up on modern conviences. Because i live in a cold climate should i never eat tropical fruit? oh its all too hard, i am confused and willl just give up. The problem of trying to create tranparency in the complexity of international trade. Actually i am lost, what was i trying to say, eat morally.
I think the pricing of local moral food is still trying to find a balance, difficult as the elasticities of demand vary widely between different consumers and products. I will pay double for good meat but not mushrooms, why dunno? dont like to feel ripped off and shitake market mushrooms arent worth twice the supermarket ones to me but the bacon is probably because of the awareness of have of what it takes and causes to grow a pig so cheaply.