- Alexa Dunn
- Chicago, IL
- United States
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Try to eat locally produced fruit and vegetables this summer.
Eat seasonal produce from your local area farms, or your own urban garden. This supports agriculture, commerce in your city, and cuts down on your carbon footprint (less food transported from far away). Attend Farmer's Markets, or join a CSA plan (Community Supported Agrigulture). Use your garage as a CSA farm drop site for your neighborhood, inspiring your neighbors to sign up for a CSA membership too. Pick your own fruit from local u-pick farms. Take a local food challenge!! Preserve fruit/veggies for winter use. Tell your local big chain grocery store you want more locally produced, seasonal foods.
Debra Smith 200+
Linda Taylor 50+
Loretta Caravette
Duo Xin
Madiha Khayat 500+
so yeah, I agree :D
Mike Robinson
Thank you for your suggestions. It seems like there are a few people here that need to hear them... fortunately more and more young people are waking up to the true costs of agribusiness. Also most people born before the 1970s, and the age of plastic, know and remember when people knew where their food was coming from.
Krisztián Pintér 200+
Laurens Rademakers 50+
In short:
-Sorry, I don't have time for the things you suggest
-I prefer to buy stuff in my super market, where it's cheap, beautiful and tasty
-And where I can buy all my stuff in one go
-I don't like the idea of having to travel just to pick up two apples here, and a cabbage there
-Moreover, these apples and cabbages are most of the time half rotten, and they don't have apple shapes
-I will not tell my big chain grocery to buy more local; I will tell them, keep it cheap, beautiful and tasty, that's all I want
-Local food does not necessarily lower carbon footprints. Big farms, even if far away, are more efficient and have higher yields, thus needing less land for the same amount of food
In short, what you're suggesting is that I spend a great deal of time on stuff that a super market would otherwise do for me. And I don't have time to do that. That's why I'll stick to the applish apples from the hyper-efficient, ultra-low-cost super market.
edward long 100+
Laurens Rademakers 50+
Any organic food movement, of which I'm an advocate, should strive to attain the same level of organisation as that of a super-market. Only then will it be able to "internalize" the "externalities" that make super-market food cheap in the store, but costly on environmental pollution, climate change, food sovereignty, etc....
edward long 100+
Mike Robinson
And who wants to support the local farmers who are your neighbours when you could support Monsanto! They have lawyers to pay after all, and local farmers to prosecute.
I am sure you have much more important things to do than care for your and your family's health. Isn't the environment where hippies live? Monoculture is God's way of showing the rest of the planet that mankind can do whatever it wants so long as it is profitable. Degraded ecosystems are only a problem if you don't want to eat cultured yeast or soylent green....
My wit doesn't hold a candle to Edward's. Why do I bother?
Laurens Rademakers 50+
edward long 100+
Linda Taylor 50+