Red Dragon Inn strives to help move our region toward a more sustainable economic model of local farming, local processing, local employment and local sales, which stimulate regional economic activity and income both directly and through the 'multiplier effect'. This regional economic model is the future of economic sustainability of most regions in most countries.
At present we have the economic opposite - multinational corporations whose products drain money and employment from the regions, use much fuel, and clog roads trucking inputs and products all around the world.
The multinationals in league with western government - have distorted the world of food production, of wealth accumulation and of world trade: they exploit the weakest worldwide link in the chain of production, write the trade rules, exploit all subsidies available to them and exploit whatever political influence they can grab or buy. They are by nature unethical and profit driven only. This passes as modern 'free trade' economics.
(I wrote this site in 2002. now in 2010 the comments above are surely clear to all.)
Regional economic sales are to both residents of the region and visiting tourists. If tourists spend $ on local produced and sourced products then the region gets an economic boost without having to transport products to where the tourist came from. Obviously it enhances tourist experiences and helps create a regional image to attract tourists. The difference to a regions economy and health (and the planets health) between a tourist spending a $1 in Byron (or in Bali) on a local product or on an 'imported' product is dramatic ; -
One builds the other destroys.
Ethical consumerism supports these goals.
