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I don't want to pay for the cleanup of pollution, let the farmer and farmer's customers pay for that.

You are the farmer's customer.

So you’re against putting economic disincentives on plastic pollution…

… but you don’t believe in market forces coming into play to drive consumers to less expensive food grown by farmers who use less plastic.

Are you replying to the right person?

So, everyone that buys food?

Yes lol. I can’t believe you have difficulty understanding that costs that go into producing food accumulate into the cost of the food.

Or is plastic pollution the part you don’t understand?

Either way, both are simple.

I live down-wind of most of said plastic garbage where I live. Trust me: by now I'd happily pay the neighbours to clean their own plastic garbage from my field. Right now it costs me a day of work every spring to get rud of it.

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