The High Cost of Low Prices
Tonight there will be house parties around the country showing Walmart: The High Cost of Low Prices and I’m glad my friends Eva and Adam will be hosting one of them. I haven’t looked at the background of this documentary in particular but the premise is probably along the lines that as a society we need to look beyond price tags when assessing the cost of an experience or commodity. Northwest Environment Watch has been evangelizin this philosophy for years in the environmental arena with a series of publications on “measuring what matters” and it is the key principle behind my ten years of vegetarianism. I’d be a lot happier if we didn’t have to ship thousands of manufacturing jobs away, break the mom and pop shops nationwide, and see the exploitation of foreign workers and weakening of the organized labor movement to start seeing the problems with walmart but houseparties like tonight are the right place to start.