Exactly, it forces families to make a choice; take a bus/cab get what you can (assuming you can afford a decent trip - to reduce the need to go back for a while) or rely upon convenience stores to fill the gaps at a 20-30% price hike. At least where I grew up off Grant St, you had Guercio's and a few other meat markets that weren't 'Wilson Farms'. I think that optimally, some of the money being raised should be used as seed money to start a co-op. Similar to the Lexington co-op, the community can be the owners and help provide a secondary source of food supply at reasonable prices.