Just to give you a picture, I get most of my vegetables from a Community Supported Agriculture farm here in the spring and summer. They give me a box of what is available. Onions, peppers, beets, potatoes, cucumbers, fennel, tomatoes, garlic and cilantro have been some of the recent arrivals. Spring had lots of lettuces and spinach, in the future there will be squash. Some are local heirlooms, they certainly aren't from gene hack labs. The jalapenos growing in my garden came from Amish farm stocks in the next county. The pork chops and sausage in my freezer grew up a few miles away.
With all that said, I could be at the white house for a state dinner in an hour if they ever asked me.
I don't know how possible it is to manage a large global society this way, but it works OK at a micro level.
Is Germany really that different? Here in the US I can just go to a farmer's market and get all kinds of heirloom vegetables or just veggies that are hard to find commercially because they don't do well at large scale. Further, there are large farms that only sell tomatoes to supermarkets within a limited radius because that way they can be guaranteed picked when ripe since they don't have to ship cross-country.
The demand for tasty fresh food is there and in true capitalist spirit, farmers are rising to the occasion ;-)
With all that said, I could be at the white house for a state dinner in an hour if they ever asked me.
I don't know how possible it is to manage a large global society this way, but it works OK at a micro level.
http://www.localharvest.org/csa/