They don't swim in the same pools. They don't go to the same movies. In effect they're creating a colonial society here in America through the global accumulation of financial power. And that is certainly found in the food production and distribution system. It is not immune from the overall process of late stage capitalism.
Farmers markets are green shoots coming out of the gun.
They represent hope and they need to be cultivated. But we have a juggernaut coming at us. The government is a bunch of whores. Look at the people who pay to elect the government. Small farmers or cooperative activists do not pay anything other than a microscopic speck of the money spent to elect Congress.