bolson

Well, so when I buy local eggs, I'm willing to pay 2-4x what I could pay in the store for mass market eggs. This is because I believe that the farmers are telling me the truth about what it costs to raise eggs their way, which I in turn believe to be better for chickens and the environment. (It's probably also better for me in some ways, but I actually worry relatively little about that; it's like a side benefit.) I conversely believe that mass market chicken eggs cost less to make because they're willing to defray some of the cost from me onto the chickens and environment by keeping the chickens in inhumane conditions.

So I'm definitely paying for my ideology, but my ideology involves the question of cost rather directly.