LocalLunch.tv Episode 2
Episode two of the LocalLunch.tv is now online. Please stop by and take a look.http://locallunch.tv/2009/12/freshmas-local-lunch-tv-episode-2/
This picture speaks for itself…
Socialnomics
Introducing… the LocalLunch.tv
I would like to let everybody know about my newest project. This is something I have been working on for two months and I’m really excited to see it finally come together.
We did some filming last Friday at the Calgary Farmer’s Market, had some audio problems which delayed us, but today I would like to let the world know about the LocalLunch.tv at www.Locallunch.tv.
Seeing how it’s Christmas season, we start off talking turkey, locally grown of course and then about turkey alternatives,like a prime rib roast or a tenderloin roast for the holidays.
Please go visit usat www.locallunch.tv, watch the video, and leave a comment.
Is this a Good Deal?
I was at a store the other day and saw a special.
A certified organic T-shirt for only seven dollars. Amazing.
How can they offer this great deal?
Read the label.
It looks good doesn’t it? But is it?
It raises a few questions.
The product is not certified organic, it is 100% organically grown. Is there a difference? What are the organic standards in Bangladesh?
What about the people who made the t-shirt? Does it matter how the workers are treated in the production of the t-shirt?
I think it does.
In the end, you’re going to be paying a premium for an organically grown cotton T-shirt that you really don’t know is certified organic or organically grown.
Cheap stuff is cheap for a reason. Pay more and buy quality.
An E-mail from a Customer
We are not heavy meat eaters, but any beef we do purchase has been exclusively from your booth at the Calgary Farmer’s Market for the past number of years. The pride in your farm and the care of your animals is obvious through the superb quality of your meats. At this point we simply would not buy beef anywhere else.
I just wanted to send you this to say how much we appreciate your product and knowing where our food comes from!
Thanks for the very kind words.
Merry Christmas.
How Cold Is It?
It is cold out there.
The 100 Mile Delusion
![2320865[1]](http://organicbeefguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/23208651.png "2320865[1]")
From the National Post.
“If you are concerned about the carbon footprint of your diet, focusing on transportation is kind of like worrying about the air pressure in your tires of your car rather than whether you have a fuel-efficient car or not,” says James McWilliams, an environmental and agricultural historian at Texas State University, author of Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly, and a former part-time locavore. “What matters so much more than how far it travels from farm to fork is what kind of methods were used to produce it.”
and
Though greenhouse gas emissions themselves are often not part of the price of food, all the fuel, fertilizer and land clearance responsible for creating them — all net contributors to greenhouse gas emissions — are all in there. “In a global market economy, people have the incentive to use resources as efficiently as possible,” Prof. Desrochers says. The steeper the price tag on a bag of baby carrots, the more likely their production came at an environmental cost.
and one more
“What I really do see … is that buying local is a political act. It’s a gesture that, in essence, thumbs its nose at globalization,” he says. If left-wing posturing and green-posing is your priority, then stick with your 100-mile diet. Leave it to average consumers, buying the globally sourced groceries at their local, corporate, big-box retailer, to do genuine good for the planet.
Read more: http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/copenhagen/story.html?id=2320323#ixzz0ZKj8kDGz
The National Post is now on Facebook. Join our fan community today.
It sounds like the National Post is saying that we should support anything that keeps the price down on products because that is a sign that less energy was used in its production. I guess we should support child labor because children need less energy than a full grown man. Mass-produced industrial goods from China must be better for the environment because they cost less at Wal-Mart.
The logic baffles me.
“A Credible Local Food System”
A short but interesting interview with Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms (www.polyfacefarms.com)
He speaks of the need for business farmers as opposed to hobby farmers – people who can grow their farms big enough to credibly take on the local food problem.
Watch it.
The System Needs to Change
Sometimes changing the last step in the process doesn’t make a difference.
You need to dig deeper to change the system.
