“Is the produce you’re buying at the farmers market grown locally? Marketplace goes on an undercover shopping trip and catches vendors lying about where their produce is grown.”

At first, I wasn’t expecting to find this video very interesting. However, I’m glad I watched it. It doesn’t reveal anything that I wouldn’t have already assumed was going on, but I found it interesting to see the specific details on farmers markets, which they investigate in Canada and in California, USA to compare and contrast the situations there. I also found it interesting to see the interviews of farmers and the footage of the produce resellers and their business practices and their land.

Of course, as mainstream news media, there is no radical solution proposed here, and the revelation that capitalism incentivizes people to lie is nothing new. But I hope anyone here might also find the video interesting in some way. I think what I liked about it was the specificity of the information, as the reporter goes directly to farmer’s markets, speaks directly to sellers and farmers, goes to the land where people claim they are cultivating produce (they are not), speaks directly to regulation enforcement personnel, speaks directly to the people running the market, etc. I thought it was a good look into some of the specific problems in a small scale market.