I don't care where my food comes from -- and neither should you.

UPI ^ | September 26, 2002 | Ronald Bailey

[hispanarepublicana]

As long as I don't have to eat recycled food.

[Cicero]

This comes from the Reason Foundation? The author sounds like a flat earther.

We already have too many people in America who don't know where anything comes from. They turn on the faucet and get water, plug in a lamp and get light, and have no appreciation of what lies behind these things.

As for food, fresh grown and local grown is certainly tastier and healthier than stuff that was picked when it wasn't ripe yet and shipped across the country.

If you've tasted fresh eggs or free-range chickens, you wouldn't want to eat the other stuff unless you have to. A lot of people have no choice, but even in the city you don't have to buy Tyson chickens or Velveeta. Ugh.

[fone]

Cool.

Let me sell this guy some mushrooms I've got growing in my backyard since tropical storm Isadora went through this week. I mean, since he doesn't care and all. I'll only charge him $3.99 per pound.

[fone]

>>>Tyson chickens<<<

To my knowledge, I've not purchased a Tyson product since 1993/94 when I found out he was a FOB.

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[DoughtyOne]

Yep. Same here.

[DoughtyOne]

I don't like the idea of importing much of our food. Some is fine. But there's no way I want to turn our food supply into the next oil cartel type product we're going to get blackmailed over by some third world suicidal maniacs.

[petuniasevan]

If it's a Tyson product, no matter how tempting, I pass it by. So does Mom.
We boycott all Tyson products.

I always want to know where MY food comes from. See above.

[hispanarepublicana]

ditto

[fone]

The problem with Tyson is not only do we know WHERE it comes from, we know the conditions under which it was processed. THAT's scary, no matter which side of the political aisle you're on.

Ever read about how his chicken farms destroyed rivers from fecal matter choking the oxygen from the water? Disgusting!

[DoughtyOne]

I've heard of it. And what urks me is that enviro-whackjobs loved Clinton, who facilitated Tyson's avoidance of complying with Arkansas regulations.

[Rocksalt]

It doesn't hurt to know as much as possible about where you're food comes from. I'm not a real picky eater,but i do prefer locally grown stuff over stuff trucked clear across the country. I have a real distain for "food nazis" that try and impose their value system on others though,the ones who try and guilt others into eating vegetarian,etc. Food should be something we enjoy,lifes too short to have it otherwise. I try to keep my consumption of pre-packaged foods to a minimum.

[fone]

A few years back, I recall hearing Pat Choate discussing the incredible *luck* (economically) that Tyson products had over Perdue.

10-12 or so years ago, both companies had basically the same fiscal profile, yet Tyson grew/expanded far beyond Perdue. Given the fact both had (relatively) the same capital investment and growth opportunity, it is incredible that one has grown so far above and beyond the other (did Tyson have a little inside *government* help?).
I believe the comparison was made for two olympic athletes in the same competition, given the same pair of shoes, one running a four-minute mile while the other runs a one-minute mile.

Fear the day that Tyson buys out Perdue: then raise your own yardbirds.

[07055]

I've heard of it. And what urks me is that enviro-whackjobs loved Clinton, who facilitated Tyson's avoidance of complying with Arkansas regulations.

Yeah, but Clinton was in favor of abortion up to 8 months, 29 days, so that made all other issues seem minor in comparison.

[DoughtyOne]

Look for government contracts to Tyson. Feeding a bunch of men in the military could be a rather nice way to grow a company. VA hospitals and other government programs across the nation would be another good place to check out. How about school lunch or breakfast programs? Seems to me the government could contract a company like Tyson into a near monopoly. Has it?

[DoughtyOne]

That's true too.

[fone]

I've no doubt Tyson has the corner on that market!

Popular skool lunch: Chicken nuggets!
And, oh the military! Hadn't thought of that angle! Lord knows what they are fed.

[teresat]

As long as I don't have to eat food from Mexico that rots a minute after I buy it...yeah I'm sure Mexico has really high standards...

[speekinout]

As for food, fresh grown and local grown is certainly tastier and healthier than stuff that was picked when it wasn't ripe yet and shipped across the country.

Where do you live? Most of us live in areas where locally grown foods aren't available all year round. I like vegetables that have been shipped halfway around the world more than ones that have been stored here for 6 months or more.