Every increase in transportation costs makes local farming and manufacturing that much more attractive.
I head for the organic section of HyVee, locally grown or not.
My carbon footprint, stomps your hybrid.....
Smoot Hawley for the win!
/it worked out so well last time we got all self sufficienty
//another unintended consequence is putting a drug gun on every campesinos who’ll be made jobless.
We buy local, organic food not because of the environmental issues. It’s just fresher and it tastes better than mass-produced food that has spent days in transit.
And as transportation costs increase, the price difference is going to shrink.
Even if you don’t just “buy locally”, you should at least “buy American”...
Up until recently, you never much heard of salmonella outbreaks other than chicken, eggs, and reptiles...
Now, you hear of it from tomatoes, broccolli, lettuce, asparagus, avacodoes, jalapenos...Mostly stuff that’s IMPORTED...probably fertilized with human “fertilizer”.
(One reason I haven’t eaten rice since 1968 when I wallowed through rice paddies in a far-off land and saw close-up what it was grown in)
I wonder what the cost is going to be to fight scurvy in Wisconsin and Minnesota in the winter?
I refuse to buy anything from Mexico, instead I grow my own avocados, and have found alternate sources for fruit and berries.
Unless I'm totally misguided, I'd rather give Florida's economy a boost when I can.
Hm...interesting way of looking at the topic.
Sweet corn must be bought locally. Directly from the farmer. Who picked it that day.
Anything else is nto sweet corn.
We grow local too, tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, hot peppers, green beans, carrots, cantelope, eggplant and herbs.
I try to “buy local” but it’s more to support the local farmers than to lessen my carbon footprint. Kentucky has the “Kentucky Proud” program and I will usually purchase something that has the Kentucky Proud logo a product that was not grown in Kentucky, because I do feel in some ways it is important to support those in your community and state. I also shop at Farmer’s markets, but that’s because the veggies are fresher and taste better IMHO.
Where in “buy local” is the free market principle?
Nowhere. That the whole thing is consistent with hard core socialism can be detected in the fact that while it advocates slowing the economy, the slogan spread like wildfire with a maximum of do-gooder appeal and a minimum of real benefit.
Garden PING!!!!!!!!!!
Vacation Bible School ends today and I’m on my way out the door to attend the final program of the week and then have picnic lunch -— I’ll be back later!
Take that Mexico and China!!!
Of course. It’s the best.
I'll have to remember the next time I visit the farmers market to stomp out the door shouting "I'm off to save the world"!
I’m not worried about my carbon footprint, but I think I will make more of an effort to buy locally and patronage farmer’s markets more often. I’m done with produce from Mexico, and think it’s great to support local farmers. I like the idea of our nation being more self reliant and not relying on other countries for so many of the things we need.
I also grow a small garden ... finally got my first ripe tomato yesterday. I plan to expand the garden next year.
It’s simple.
If you live in Castro Valley, you eat nothing but artichokes.
Those of us in Michigan eat nothing but cherries.
Folks in Iowa and Illiois eat nothing but corn and soybeans. And lots of it.
Any questions?
There is no “local”. It’s all “interstate commerce”.
We consume local food when it’s available. We’ve bought a farm share, and enjoy fresh berries, veggies, herbs and flowers every Wednesday. The food is much fresher and tastes wonderful. Some of it is U-pick, so it’s really excellent. It takes more of my time, but I enjoy my visits to the farm, and for the freshness, it’s worth it. I also buy eggs on the farm, which are produced by the hens on site. We pick a lot of local berries which grow wild at the edges of fields. Blackberries are in, and while I’m a mess of scratches, we have home-made blackberry ice cream in the freezer. I love the fresh local produce available to us in the growing season. We also buy food at the grocery store, but we shop carefully to support US growers and avoid food from Mexico and Chine. I’m glad to have options.
We buy local because it tastes better.
Here in Alaska we would be SOL during most of the year. I will stick with the system we have thank you.
If the transportation system ever suffers a dramatic setback for whatever reason, most folks are gonna become all too painfully aware of just how dependent they’ve made themselves upon the current “free market” model of shipping foodstuffs thousands of miles across the nation, when local supplies are available.