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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 8678707" data-attributes="member: 16814"><p>You're hung up on monopolies.  I live in a town with only one farmer's market.  If I want fresh local produce, that's my option.  Local farmers can set up their own tables and stand there an man them and sell to people that drive to their farms (and some do, we have some fairly famous farms where this is their business), but for most farmers, especially small ones, selling to the market is the best way to do it -- they don't want to run their own stores at their own farms.  Is this also a monopoly, or 'monopoly powers'? (I don't know what this means, really, except, "a monopoly but we can't call it a monopoly.")  Should the farmer's market be expected to sell any farmer's products even if that farmer is badmouthing the market to other farmers and customers, or they say things that the market doesn't want to be associated with?</p></blockquote><p></p>