I’m so lost on the whole local foods thing. Really, I just do not comprehend it. Is it regionalism? Or is it assumed that ConAgra and Monsanto don’t have farms nearby to anything?
Sev: Local foods can be about keeping money in the hands of small businesses, but it can also be about not growing food out-of-season and not causing pollution from food being trucked from the opposite hemisphere and not encouraging a loss of local foods to the opposite hemisphere because of our out-of-season produce becoming a more profitable crop than vegetation more suitable for their local climes.
That seems somewhat irrational to me. I think that what that would end up encouraging is more greenhouses and powered irrigation, both of which require substantial energy inputs and therefore increase CO2 emissions.
Granted, that argument is negated if you are very careful about what you eat, and only buy produce from farms which use a minimum of energy. On the other hand, that would drive food prices up, which doesn’t work out well for poor people.
People have made a mess of this whole civilization thing.
Sev: Buying local wouldn’t necessarily encourage more greenhouses and powered irrigation. People could just eat the produce that’s actually in season and switch over to things that keep well in the winter, like root vegetables.
Mmm, mmm. Kraut, carrot and potato stew and all those winter type menus. Probably wouldn’t end up seriously ill from those manky organic bagged salads of laziness with preassembled bacterial infection trucked and flown in from who knows where.
September 6, 2012
Remember, Brown eggs are local eggs, and local eggs are fresh.
September 6, 2012
In Rhode Island, maybe.
September 6, 2012
Brown eggs are local? Never heard that before.
September 6, 2012
Brown eggs come form brown hens. White eggs from white hens.
http://www.fitday.com/fitness-articles/nutrition/healthy-eating/brown-eggs-vs-white-eggs.html#b
Oh, and by the way, I am such a geek that I saw the word “locals” and immediately wondered why C&G were riffing in computer language scoping.
I KNOW.
September 6, 2012
It’s a callback to a Donation Derby from a few weeks ago involving the New England Brown Egg Council slogan.
September 7, 2012
The War of the Eggs
September 7, 2012
Basically, my life. #onebrownegginacartonofwhiteones
September 9, 2012
I’m so lost on the whole local foods thing. Really, I just do not comprehend it. Is it regionalism? Or is it assumed that ConAgra and Monsanto don’t have farms nearby to anything?
Help me out here, folks.
September 9, 2012
Sev: Local foods can be about keeping money in the hands of small businesses, but it can also be about not growing food out-of-season and not causing pollution from food being trucked from the opposite hemisphere and not encouraging a loss of local foods to the opposite hemisphere because of our out-of-season produce becoming a more profitable crop than vegetation more suitable for their local climes.
September 9, 2012
That seems somewhat irrational to me. I think that what that would end up encouraging is more greenhouses and powered irrigation, both of which require substantial energy inputs and therefore increase CO2 emissions.
September 10, 2012
Granted, that argument is negated if you are very careful about what you eat, and only buy produce from farms which use a minimum of energy. On the other hand, that would drive food prices up, which doesn’t work out well for poor people.
People have made a mess of this whole civilization thing.
September 10, 2012
I think no matter where you come down on the whole localism things, you pretty much summed up the whole thing, Sev. Civilization is a mess.
September 13, 2012
Sev: Buying local wouldn’t necessarily encourage more greenhouses and powered irrigation. People could just eat the produce that’s actually in season and switch over to things that keep well in the winter, like root vegetables.
September 23, 2012
tenshikurai, you make it sound like people were able to eat food during winter even before we had gas engines and electricity.
October 21, 2013
Mmm, mmm. Kraut, carrot and potato stew and all those winter type menus. Probably wouldn’t end up seriously ill from those manky organic bagged salads of laziness with preassembled bacterial infection trucked and flown in from who knows where.