Every time a consumer buys cheap produce, someone somewhere absorbed the real cost. Is that a transaction, or a relationship we have chosen not to see?

Fr Eric Akongnie@akongnie

Perhaps it is both—but a transaction becomes morally troubling when the price we pay hides the person who bears the real cost. What looks cheap at the checkout may be paid for through a farmer’s exhausted labour, a worker’s insecurity, or a wounded earth. So the deeper question is not, “How cheap is this food?” but “Whose suffering have we made invisible so that we can call it cheap?”