‘Proper economic prices should be fixed not at the lowest possible level, but at the level sufficient to provide producers with proper nutritional and other standards in the conditions in which they live….. It is in the interests of all producers that the price of a commodity should not be depressed beyond this level, and the consumers are not entitled to expect that it should’
In Jaffee, D. (2007) Brewing Justice. University of Califonia Press; London.

Note: I pulled this quote from the Fairness UK group to which I belong.

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